Re: [boost] OT - option to strip lib off version on install

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-17 23:56:43

Manfred Doudar wrote:
> All:
> 
> Sorry, slightly off-topic this time, but I know the last time I built 
> the Boost libs, I specified an option to strip or rather create 
> soft-links to versioned libraries, with soft-links stripping off version 
> numbers (hope I'm clear); so that:
> 
>    libboost_date_time-1_31.so  ->  libboost_date_time.so
>    libboost_date_time-gcc-mt-d-1_31.so  ->  libboost_date_time-mt.so
> 
> Does any one of the top of their head know what that option is again?

The default is to create unversioned hard-links to the versioned libraries.

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