Re: [Boost-build] Issues for building Boost 1.34.1

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-11 04:32:57

Modwel, Manoj wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Again many thanks for your reply.
> 
> Actually, there is nothing wrong with boost build system. Due to some
> "internal" reasons we changed the default build names of STLPort library
> and hence the linker fails when it is not able to find  libstlport5.1.so
> (The default Stlport lib name).
> 
> I will appreciate if you could tell me is there any way to introduce
> some tweak in any jam filr (stlport.jam ?) so that the stlport library
> name should be what I want to (my changed name is libtlport_gcc.so)
> nstead of what boost build system picks (as libstlport.5.1.so), if not
> probably a softlink is the only solution.

Yes, you can tweak stlport.jam. There are extension mechanism that allow
you to externally modify the name, so you'd have to edit the source.
I doubt that softlink (at build time) will work, because it does not
change the library soname, and at runtime you'll still need libstlport.5.1.so.

- Volodya