Re: [jamboost] Installed library names

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-23 22:49:01

[2003-08-29] Rene Rivera wrote:

>[2003-08-29] John Maddock wrote:
>
>>Rene,
>>
>>Last lot of comments for now (honest).
>>
>>I notice on Linux that several copies of the libraries are installed:
>>
>>libboost_whatever-suffix-version.so
>>libboost_whatever-suffix-version.so.version
>>
>>etc.
>>
>>Shouldn't the first of these be a symbolic link to the second? I'm not
>>completely up to speed with linux library versioning, but this is my
>>understanding of how it works, of course I don't know if this is possible
>in
>>a Jamfile...
>
>Yes it should be a symlink, haven't gotten around to figuring out what the
>problem is.

Ages later... This is now fixed when doing a build in Linux. And seeing as
Linux and OpenBSD are currently the only platforms generating symlinks.. And
I'm the only one doing OpenBSD builds.. I guess that's good enough ;-)

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