On Dec 30, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Thomas Porschberg wrote:
but how is it possible to determine the linker path (LDFLAGS) in such a case. As long as not installed all the libraries reside in their $BOOSTROOT/bin/boost/libs/<special-dir> ?
When I wrote the macro, I didn't even think about LDFLAGS. Actually, we might not have had any libraries that had compiled bits with them back when I wrote it :) Finding the LDFLAGS could be a bit tricky. We could probably assume that Boost has been either installed or staged; if staged, we can find the libraries in $BOOST_ROOT/stage. If installed, we'd need to go back and find the lib/ directory that corresponds to the include directory for $BOOST_ROOT, e.g., if it's something like /usr/local/include then we strip off "include" and replace it with "lib": /usr/local/lib I'm guessing it will take us a few iterations to get the right scheme to find the lib directories on each platform, especially with several Linux distributions installing in different ways. Doug