[boost] Question on ABI tags and autolinking

Subject: [boost] Question on ABI tags and autolinking
From: Philip Lowman (philip_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-17 00:27:58

Hi,

I'm working on some cleanup of CMake's FindBoost module and had a few
questions about Boost and it's ABI tags.

1. Are the ABI tags as defined on the webpage below always defined in this
order in generated libraries?
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#library-naming

2. Regarding the "-s" ABI tag, the current CMake module has a deficiency and
only searches for it under Windows and only after not being able to find a
non "-s" library there.  On other platforms it doesn't search for the "-s"
at all.  I'm curious what the defaults are for building Boost against static
C/C++ system libraries using Boost's present build system?  Does this happen
on compilers other than VS?  I just want to know if there is any history to
this oddity or if it's just a bug.

3.  Are "-p", "-n", and "-y" ABI tags persistent across all generated
libraries filenames once one of them is enabled?  In other words, the
generated Boost library filenames vary only on "-s" (static runtime) , "-g"
(debug standard/runtime libs) , and "-d" (debug build of boost library)?

4.  None of this changes (or will change) under the CMake build of Boost, I
trust?

5.  Is there a consolidated list of Boost libraries online for which
MSVC/Borland/etc. auto-linking is always against the shared library?  I'd
like to be able to link the end-user to a list of these, if possible.

Thanks.

-- 
Philip Lowman