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

From: Matthias Kaeppler (nospam_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-20 15:35:40

Rene Rivera wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 

On my Linux installation, those are all symlinks, nothing is hard 
linked. How come?

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Matthias Kaeppler