Re: [jamboost] Re: Why is --allow-multiple-definition used for the v1 MinGW toolset?

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-06 00:34:53

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm trying to figure out why --allow-multiple-definition is used with
>>MinGW, and all I can find on the subject is this:
>>
>>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01373.html
> 
> To clarify: that's all I can find relating to Boost
> and --allow-multiple-definition.

Don't know, even if I wrote some of that file... That particular change 
was done by John and says:

Added -Wl,--allow-multiple-definition to link line so that regex dll 
will link - may also effect other libraries.

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost/boost/tools/build/v1/mingw-tools.jam?rev=1.19&view=markup
http://tinyurl.com/c23ut

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