On Oct 23, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:
The topic of what gets built "out of the box" came up again, this time on IRC. Some background... In the past we have gone the route of building as much as possible when users do the manual Boost build+install. That approach has gotten us a rather distressing reputation of building being a real pain, mostly because it takes a long time to build. But also because it generates a dizzying array of library files and hence people have a hard time understanding what to link to.
The old real way to "solve" this is to reduce the number of variants we build by default. So the current favorite is to only build:
* multi-threaded, shared runtime, release
Good. Will the names of the resulting libraries be mangled or not? Mangling those names seems like a good idea on Windows, not such a good idea on *nix. - Doug