Re: [Boost-cmake] Configuration for sonames for the boost dynamic libraries on Unix

Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] Configuration for sonames for the boost dynamic libraries on Unix
From: troy d. straszheim (troy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-28 16:26:03

Denis Arnaud wrote:
> 2009/10/28 troy d. straszheim <troy_at_[hidden] 
> <mailto:troy_at_[hidden]>>
> 
>            Would it be possible to have the option, with CMake build, to
>         use a
>            more conventional soname, so that Linux distribution packagers
>            (Debianers and RPM-based packagers such as me, for instance) be
>            happy (i.e., have less extra code to write)?
> 
>     So, like this (?):
> 
>     % ls -l build/lib
>     total 1352
>      libboost_iostreams-mt-d.a
>      libboost_iostreams-mt-d.so -> libboost_iostreams-mt-d.so.1.41*
>      libboost_iostreams-mt-d.so.1.41 -> libboost_iostreams-mt-d.so.1.41.0*
>      libboost_iostreams-mt-d.so.1.41.0*
>      libboost_iostreams-mt.a
>      libboost_iostreams-mt.so -> libboost_iostreams-mt.so.1.41*
>      libboost_iostreams-mt.so.1.41 -> libboost_iostreams-mt.so.1.41.0*
>      libboost_iostreams-mt.so.1.41.0*
> 
> 
> Yes, exactly :)
> 
> And the soname would read something like:
> $ readelf -a /usr/lib/libboost_date_time-mt.so | grep -i soname
> 0x0000000e (SONAME)                     Library soname: 
> [libboost_date_time-mt.so.4]
> (that example is taken from Fedora 11, with Boost 1.37.0; the soname 
> version is fixed within the RPM specification file).
> 

% readelf -a build/lib/libboost_iostreams-mt.so | grep SONAME
  0x000000000000000e (SONAME)             Library soname: 
[libboost_iostreams-mt.so.1.41]

OK?

-t