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

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] linux -mt tag gone?
From: Ken Sullivan (sullivan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-29 18:35:05

Excellent, thanks!

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> 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
>
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