Re: [boost] [exception] is static only?

Subject: Re: [boost] [exception] is static only?
From: Neal Becker (ndbecker2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-08-22 15:26:33

Emil Dotchevski wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>> Is it necessary that exception builds only static libs?  On many
>> architectures,
>> this would limit it's usefulness.
>>
> 
> Boost Exception is a header-only lib, except for the non-intrusive
> exception_ptr support that is provided for some MSVC versions, which is off
> by default.
> 
Then I'm confused.  When I build using:

bjam cxxflags=-march=native -sHAVE_ICU=1 -sEXPAT_INCLUDE=/usr -
sEXPAT_LIBPATH=/usr/lib64 --layout=tagged threading=single,multi link=shared 
stage

on fedora 17 x86_64, I got:

  -rw-rw-r-- 1 nbecker nbecker    1662 Aug 21 10:34 libboost_exception.a
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 nbecker nbecker    1662 Aug 21 10:44 libboost_exception-mt.a