[Boost-users] Re: why so many .so and .a files for boost?

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-20 09:59:11

Tom Tan (SH/RDC) wrote:
> That 's right. 
> Try command:
> $ls -l libboost_regex-gcc-d.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 	2 	tomtan	staff	5.5M	Feb 21 10:54	libboost_regex-gcc-d.so
> Now see the second column. more than 1 (2 in this case) means this file has hard links.
> Anyway, why not a symbolic link ? 

It's a long story.. But at the end it's what was easiest to implement at 
the time :-)

As for the Windows case, it does a copy instead of the ln.

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