Re: [boost] Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-25 15:42:07

At 04:13 2005-05-25, Stuart Dootson wrote:
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>One final point - whoever came up with the autolinking scheme (think
>it was John Maddock?) - thank you very much - that makes life *so*
>much easier!

Yes, it does!
It's a wonder that the committee didn't insist long ago that there be a 
directive in the language which would pass a name(file?) to the linker for 
processing.  It's not like we haven't been fighting this problem since the 
late 1970s and it's still a compiler specific thing.  Kinda makes you 
wonder exactly what things the committee deems important, and why (we STILL 
don't have   #pragma once  as a "standard" requirement).

>HTH
>
>Stuart Dootson
>
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