The toolset I am creating for a cross-development environment on cygwin targeting HP NonStop Kernel system requires that shared libraries be generated with "lib" prefix. Is there a way to control the decision on whether or not to generate this prefix? This appears to be goverend by build/virtual-target.jam as follows:

rule add-prefix-and-suffix ( specified-name : type ? : property-set )
{
    local suffix = [ type.generated-target-suffix $(type) : $(property-set) ] ;
    suffix = .$(suffix) ;

    local prefix ;

    if [ type.is-derived $(type) LIB ] && [ os.on-unix ]
       && ! [ MATCH ^(lib) : $(specified-name) ]
    {
        prefix = "lib" ;
    }

    return $(prefix:E="")$(specified-name)$(suffix:E="") ;
}

Someone else ran into this problem and ended up having to change the rule above. (http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20060102.130852.3389a353.en.html)

I'd rather not have to go that route.

Thanks!
Mark