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

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-27 23:14:31

Matt England wrote:
> 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?

Hm, depends on what you mean by consystently-named. I always recomend 
using the default options. So the usual:

     bjam install

Should do.

--grafik