Re: [Boost-build] libboost_thread*.so, -mt, and consistent naming?

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-27 19:16:58

Matt England wrote:
> At 8/26/2006 01:02 PM, Matt England wrote:
>> http://svn.cleversafe.org/moxie/trunk/thirdparty-builder/scripts/boost.sh
>>
>> We are under the impression that the 'bjam --layout="system"' switch is
>> supposed to eliminate this '-mt' stuff (like it seems to do well for the
>> other 3-4 boost libs we use), but _thread is a problem.  And why does a
>> library that supports threads need to be marked as multi threaded?
> 
> I've adjusted the above script to create '-mt' soft links to the non-'-mt' 
> files.  Things seem to be better now.
> 
> But I like to know why I have to do this in the first place and/or if 
> there's anything my project can do differently to avoid these issues.
> 
> Note, our project doesn't seem to be the only one to experience this stuff:
> 
> http://anyterm.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1122
> http://www.condordes.net/~des/darcs/metafs/_darcs/inventory
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.ptx/4715
> http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-error-compiling-hugin-on-x86_64-(fedora-fc4)-p2890095.html 
> 
> http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/8252

My guess is that all of these are related to the RedHat RPM layout, 
which is different than either the --layout=versioned and --layout=system.

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