Re: [Boost-build] linux -mt tag gone?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] linux -mt tag gone?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-29 16:40:51

AMDG

Ken Sullivan wrote:
> Hi, I have a quick question. I'm switching for linking to a boost package on
> fedora (i.e. "yum"-ed) to building from source, which also means I'm
> switching from version 1.37 to an up-to-date version. Previously I was
> linking to libs with -mt suffixes for multi-threading, but in new builds I
> don't have the -mt.  Some googling, (e.g.
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2293962/boost-libraries-in-multithreading-aware-mode)
> indicates that recently the -mt was dropped and I shouldn't worry, but the
> official documentation,
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#library-naming
> , still
> says "Libraries built without multithreading support can be identified by
> the absence of -mt." I'd just like to verify the most likely option, that
> the documentation hasn't yet been updated to reflect the recent change.
>   

Correct.  I'll make sure the docs are updated for the next release.
Thanks for pointing this out.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe