Re: [jamboost] Re: building 1.30.0 gcc static libraries

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-21 20:48:11

"Gary Powell" <powellg_at_[hidden]> writes:

> --- In jamboost_at_[hidden], David Abrahams <dave_at_b...> wrote:

>> There is no <link> feature in Boost.Build v1, and even if there were,
>> you'd need a slash.
>
> Sorry I was confused by an earlier post that mentioned
> <link>static. 

That post was about BBv2 (prerelease software)

> I made the assumption that it worked like the <instruction-set> stuff.

In BBv2, it does (roughly speaking).

>> > but it still made an .so (shared) library.
>> 
>> Which library were you building? I'm guessing Boost.Threads because
>> it conspicuously doesn't have a static build on Windows (you can't do
>> TLS without a DLL).
>
> I'm using Linux and is that also true? 

According to libs/thread/build/Jamfile, yes. Notice that there is no
"lib" target declared there, only a "dll" target.

> But it's ok, as we are using some other thread management package. 
> But I thought I also saw it for regex as well. 

That Jamfile builds both shared and static libs.

> The gcc.mak file for it has a link line of -shared. I did try and
> build it using -static and that worked but I am also wondering why
> we don't build both.

I can't be responsible for what people choose to do with make ;-)

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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