Re: [boost] --layout=system creates versioned libraries

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-18 16:39:30

Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> So... as --layout=system already removes the toolset string from the
> library names (among several other things), why doesn't it remove -mt
> and similar suffixes too?)

Because then it would not be possible to select between single-threaded 
and multi-threaded versions of the same library. (repeat for the other 
options) Basically what --layout=system does is remove the tags that are 
redundant when using the system compiler. Of course if you only build 
one particular variant of the libraries then the extra tags might seem 
redundant. If that's the case a packager could decide to provide shorter 
names (as symlinks) to the desired variant.

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