Re: [boost] Library names in system layout on linux

Scott McMurray wrote:

What if there were a way to specify what you want, and for some program to find whatever matches best?

pkg-config++ ? The practical issue with that is that after introducing such a program I'd have to wait for N years until it was available in all deployed versions. I do like the pkg-config approach, though it does not work as well for cross-compilation as the alternatives. Phil.