Re: [jamboost] Automatic lib prefix on NT

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-12 09:18:06

It has to be that way if you want to target cygwin, though.

-Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Markus Schöpflin" <markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden]>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.boost.build
To: <jamboost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 10:15 AM
Subject: [jamboost] Automatic lib prefix on NT

> Hi,
>
> I just noticed a problem with lib generation on WIN32 platforms.
> In allyourbase.jam there is a section at the beginning where
> some platform specific things are set up. For WIN32 the line
>
> PRELIB ?= "" ;
>
> is missing, IMHO. The problem is, if PRELIB is not explicitly
> set to contain an empty string it is later defaulted to "lib"
> resulting in all libs to have the prefix "lib". This is quite
> alien for the windows platform.
>
> Comments, anyone?
>
> Markus
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