Re: [boost] boost 1.39 to 1.40 difference: missing toolset and threading tag from library filename?

Subject: Re: [boost] boost 1.39 to 1.40 difference: missing toolset and threading tag from library filename?
From: Todd Lovette (captntoad_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-26 19:22:21

It's an alpha project called Lumiera that's using boost 1.34.1 or 
greater as one of it's minimum requirements. I wanted to take a look at 
the interface, so I just hacked it to compile against 1.40.

Good to know about the "versioned" option.

Thanks
Todd :-)

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Todd Lovette wrote:
>
>   
>> Is there a difference in the naming conventions of the libboost_*.so
>> files from boost 1.39 to boost 1.40.0?
>>
>> When I build the boost 1.39 libs they have filenames like...
>>
>> "libboost_thread-gcc44-mt-1_39.so"
>>
>> ..but when I build boost 1.40.0 all the libs filenames are like so...
>>
>> "libboost_thread.so"
>>
>> Did the library naming change in 1.40 or are their new compile options
>> to enable the library naming feature?
>>     
>
> Yes, it has changed. The default on Unix is now
>
>         --layout=system
>
> you can get the old behaviour with
>
>         --layout=versioned
>
> But -- why do you want this naming that no other library on Unix
> has?
>
> - Volodya
>
>
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