Re: [boost] Boost 1.32.0 FreeBSD port ready -- please review patches

From: Caleb Epstein (caleb.epstein_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-06 10:31:22

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 03:07:38 +0100, Simon Barner <barner_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Starting with Boost v. 1.31.0, I intend to bump the shared library
> version number with every boost release in order to prevent from
> problems that are caused by ABI incompatiblities.
> 
> (This is a requirement of the FreeBSD Ports Collection).
> 
> --- tools/build/v1/allyourbase.jam.orig Wed Feb 18 14:04:28 2004
> +++ tools/build/v1/allyourbase.jam      Wed Feb 18 14:02:44 2004
> @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@
>  SPLITPATH       ?= ":" ; # dwa -- added missing SPLITPATH
>  STDHDRS         ?= /usr/include ;
>  SUFEXE          ?= "" ;
> -SUFDLL          ?= .so ;
> +SUFDLL          ?= .so.2 ;
>  SUFLIB          ?= .a ;
>  SUFOBJ          ?= .o ;
>  PREDLL          ?= lib ;

As of Boost 1.32.0, the shared libraries are properly versioned (e.g.
they have a proper SONAME attribute set and there is a
libboost_XXX.so.1.32.0).  Is this change necessary then?

There is the unfortunate matter of the version number being encoded in
the name TWICE now (e.g. libboost_thread-gcc-mt-1_32.so.1.32.0) which
I think is a problem and should be corrected.  The versioned shared
object should be sufficient without having to encode the Boost version
in the part of the name that comes *before* .so.

-- 
Caleb Epstein
caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com