Roger Leigh wrote:
Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> writes:
Roger Leigh wrote:
This project, like many, utilises GNU Autoconf and Automake for its build system. I need to determine how to link with the Boost libraries in order to build the programs in the project. This is an issue for many projects which want to link with a Boost library.
To illustrate my problem:
ls -l /usr/lib/libboost_regex-*.so /usr/lib/libboost_program_options-*.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 2007-07-08 11:48 /usr/lib/libboost_program_options-gcc41-1_34.so -> libboost_program_options-gcc41-1_34.so.1.34.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 2007-07-08 11:48 /usr/lib/libboost_program_options-gcc41-mt-1_34.so -> libboost_program_options-gcc41-mt-1_34.so.1.34.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41
This indicates a bug with Debian packages. All Linux packagers are supposed to building Boost with the --layout=system option.
I don't remember saying that Linux packagers should use the --layout=system option. For that matter, I prefer if everyone uses the versioned layout as it produces non-colliding names.
Passing such option will produce names like
libboost_program_options-mt.so
Is this documented anywhere? I couldn't find any mention of it.
Do you mean is --layout documented? ==== --layout=<layout> Determines whether to choose library names and header locations such that multiple versions of Boost or multiple compilers can be used on the same system. versioned (default) - Names of boost binaries include the Boost version number and the name and version of the compiler. Boost headers are installed in a subdirectory of <HDRDIR> whose name contains the Boost version number. system - Binaries names do not include the Boost version number or the name and version number of the compiler. Boost headers are installed directly into <HDRDIR>. This option is intended for system integrators who are building distribution packages. ==== And no, --layout=system will not remove the -mt tag. Also for --layout=versioned, unversioned links are created which remove the Boost version number tag, but not the compiler tag. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - grafikrobot/yahoo