On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 03:07:38 +0100, Simon Barner <barner@gmx.de> wrote:
Starting with Boost v. 1.31.0, I intend to bump the shared library version number with every boost release in order to prevent from problems that are caused by ABI incompatiblities.
(This is a requirement of the FreeBSD Ports Collection).
--- tools/build/v1/allyourbase.jam.orig Wed Feb 18 14:04:28 2004 +++ tools/build/v1/allyourbase.jam Wed Feb 18 14:02:44 2004 @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ SPLITPATH ?= ":" ; # dwa -- added missing SPLITPATH STDHDRS ?= /usr/include ; SUFEXE ?= "" ; -SUFDLL ?= .so ; +SUFDLL ?= .so.2 ; SUFLIB ?= .a ; SUFOBJ ?= .o ; PREDLL ?= lib ;
As of Boost 1.32.0, the shared libraries are properly versioned (e.g. they have a proper SONAME attribute set and there is a libboost_XXX.so.1.32.0). Is this change necessary then? There is the unfortunate matter of the version number being encoded in the name TWICE now (e.g. libboost_thread-gcc-mt-1_32.so.1.32.0) which I think is a problem and should be corrected. The versioned shared object should be sufficient without having to encode the Boost version in the part of the name that comes *before* .so. -- Caleb Epstein caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com