Re: [Boost-build] Cygwin DLLs not named properly and installed in the right location

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Cygwin DLLs not named properly and installed in the right location
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-07 10:25:36

AMDG

Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> Which gets me back to my original question: regardless of whether the Boost
> distribution wants to take the patch I sent in or not - which you would be
> more than welcome to do - could some-one point me to how I can get the .dll
> file to be installed in bin rather than in lib?
>   

Jamrrot uses package.install.

> NB: as version 1.33.1 is rather out-dated, but on Cygwin, does follow the
> Cygwin conventions, I'd be more than happy to contribute the current version
> of the Boost distribution to the Cygwin distro, which I think would be a
> good thing for both communities. I doubt whether cygwin-apps (the group of
> package maintainers in Cygwin) would accept .so files in the lib directory,
> though.
>   

I thought that I had fixed the extension before 1.38.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe