Re: [boost] Re: RFP: boost libraries

From: Steve M. Robbins (steven.robbins_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-04 11:23:10

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 06:30:41PM -0500, David Abrahams wrote:
> 
> > * symlinks etc
> >
> > Here things get muddy.  The only way I know how to build shared libs
> > in a reasonably portable way is to use libtool.  I suspect someone
> > with enough motivation could teach jam how to use libtool.
> >
> > I don't have the requisite motivation, so I just fiddled with jam so
> > that it builds shared libs with the correct SONAME for linux.  This
> > hack isn't complete, as the filename is not correct, but I just rename
> > it afterwards.
> >
> > With the following patch, I invoke
> >
> >     jam .... -sSOVERSION=1.27
> 
> You shouldn't need to patch anything. Boost.Build provides two ways to
> set the SO version:

Great!

That looks like it was added post-1.27.  I should have specified that
I was working with 1.27.

> > and end up with libboost_regex.so, which I then rename to
> > libboost_regex.so.1.27.  In the libdir, one ought to have
> > the following files
> 
> 
> I believe the above also handles the naming, though I'm not positive.

Yes, it looks fine.  

-Steve

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