On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:37 AM, Olivier Tristan <o.tristan@uvi.net> wrote:

> On 1/3/2013 8:25 PM, Marshall Clow wrote:
>> Release candidate files for 1.53.0 beta 1 are available at
>> http://boost.cowic.de/rc/
>>
>> As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download
>> the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report
>> both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy.
>>
>> This helps ensure the candidates build OK before we push them out to
>> SourceForge.
>>
>> The files (and associated md5s) are:
>>      d5a45d0e08a14d5fb0965fe675d76ac6 *boost_1_53_0_beta1_rc1.tar.gz
>>      89a6084458cd9f0e136c4b5292265461 *boost_1_53_0_beta1_rc1.tar.bz2
>>      2a8897e04c59ccaf39189568f6966d60 *boost_1_53_0_beta1_rc1.zip
>>      4cdf5a71d46e1115ca0c413f5b139a54 *boost_1_53_0_beta1_rc1.7z
>>
>> Thanks,
>>

> Hi,
>
> Don't know if It's suppose to be normal but it looks that the newly added boost atomic requires linking against a static lib
> by default.
> This seems wrong as this an header only package.

What gives you the impression that Boost.Atomic is a header-only library?