Re: [jamboost] RFC: naming, dll versions and installing

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-17 03:25:52

On Thursday 16 December 2004 20:06, Pedro Ferreira wrote:

> > (...)
> >
> > BTW, I forgot to ask the most important question: why do you prefer to
> > specify
> > <tag> on targets, not on stage? To avoid relinking, or you have some
> > other reasons. I suspect I'll need to write a FAQ entry on this.
>
> Still Thursday and I already am too tired to recall this correctly :-)
> The only thing I can remember is:
>
> lib foo : foo.cpp ;
> exe bar : bar.cpp foo ;
> stage dist : exe : <tag>1.32.0
>
> The staged exe will depend on libfoo.so and not on libfoo.so.1.32.0.

Well, *this* can be fixed by improving the logic in stage.jam.

- Volodya