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

From: Matt England (mengland_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-27 19:41:48

At 8/27/2006 06:09 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:
>Matt England wrote:
>>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.
>
>That is a mistaken impression. The system layout only removes the version 
>number and toolset tags. It doesn not remove the variant tags.

Ok.  So what can one do to generate a consistently-named (in both soname 
and filename) libboost_thread* library?

-Matt