[Boost-build] How to add a system library to the library dependencies for an executable

Subject: [Boost-build] How to add a system library to the library dependencies for an executable
From: Michael Price (michael.price_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-07 15:45:25

I've got a project in which I have an exe rule that requires a symbols
provided by a system library (.so).  How should I specify that dependency
in the rule?

I hope that I don't have to make a lib rule for every system library that I
want to link in...

*Michael Price*
Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Perceptive Software | from Lexmark

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