Re: [boost] [xint] Third release is ready, requesting preliminary review

Subject: Re: [boost] [xint] Third release is ready, requesting preliminary review
From: Chad Nelson (chad.thecomfychair_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-02 11:04:28

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On 05/02/2010 02:49 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:

>> If I were using a library, I'd prefer that it didn't have an
>> unnecessary dependency on another library that would require me to
>> add that other library to my build system (which, at least under
>> Linux, would be necessary),
> 
> Could you clarify? On Linux, the official way is the shared linking, 
> and therefore the client does not need to care what dependencies
> libxint.so might have -- they will be picked up automatically.

I'm not familiar with shared linking. I don't think I've seen it work,
because (as an example purely from memory) when I try to use
Boost.FileSystem, I have to manually put in instructions for the linker
to link to Boost.System as well, or I get linker errors.
- -- 
Chad Nelson
Oak Circle Software, Inc.
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