Re: [boost] Howto set SONAME (DLLVERSION)?

From: Neal Becker (ndbecker2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-11 11:44:43

Rene Rivera wrote:

> Neal Becker wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, guys - but does anyone know the answer to my original question? 
>> How
>> do I use bjam and specify SONAME?  I see it is called DLLVERSION in some
>> jam files, but I don't know how to set it.  I tried bjam
>> -sDLLVERSION=xxx.
> 
> As others mentioned, you really shouldn't as they are it's not
> guaranteed or tested to be binary compatible, and we specifically
> changed the naming because of that. But you can do it with "bjam
> -sBOOST_VERSION=1.33.0 ...". But that's only for the build and doesn't
> affect the internal CPP version numbers. And if you are on Unix/Linux I
> also don't see the point as one can make symlinks without the version
> number, as the regular build does.
> 
> 

Point is, when I do rpm -U boost-1.33.1-1.x86_64.rpm it will remove the
libraries and all bins will have to be rebuilt.