[boost] Linking to shared library

From: Gander (agander_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-16 04:11:58

Hi,

I get an error linking the example program days_alive to the shared library 
libboost_date_time.

g++ -L/usr/lib -lboost_date_time -odays_alive days_alive.o
days_alive.o(.gnu.linkonce.t._ZN5boost9date_time19month_str_to_ushortINS_9gregorian10greg_monthEEEtSs+0xec): 
In function `unsigned short 
boost::date_time::month_str_to_ushort<boost::gregorian::greg_month>(std::basic_string<char, 
std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >)':
/usr/include/boost/token_functions.hpp:587: undefined reference to 
`boost::gregorian::greg_month::get_month_map_ptr()'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Platform is FC2
gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)

I built Boost from the SRC RPM boost-1.32.0-3.src.rpm with no special 
switches.

I found a comment in the boost mailings advising linking to static library.
This was successful.

Is the general advice to only use the static libraries?

Giles Anderson