Re: [Boost-build] [boost-build] linking against pre-built libraries

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] [boost-build] linking against pre-built libraries
From: Jurko Gospodnetić (jurko.gospodnetic_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-06-14 04:20:48

   Hi.

> Not sure if anybody read this, so i added correct group :)

   Yup, that helped. :-)

> I found something intresting.
> Boost-build packaged with version 1.46.1 was copying unversioned libraries:
>
> ln-NT stage\lib\boost_unit_test_framework-vc80-mt-gd.lib
> "NT symlinks not supported yet, making copy"
>          1 file(s) copied.
>
> But then something happened in 1.47 that it doesn't do this anymore in
> 1.49_beta also, I'm not sure how it's done in 1.49 and trunk. I hope
> that it's solved.
>
> I found this:
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6027
> someone ignored this, perhaps by language used. But anyway it works, and
> this is what I needed

   Verified & fixed on trunk in rev. 78938.

   Thanks for the report.

   Best regards,
     Jurko Gospodnetić