Re: [Boost-users] Auto-linking + serious Xplatform dev => mutuallyexclusive?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-08 04:56:38

John Maddock wrote:

>> Am I missing something? Is this only useful on Windows? I'd love for
>> it to work in general, but I think I have to replicate the logic in my
>> build system which means I shouldn't really use it on Windows (since
>> my logic will already be there).
> 
> It's only useful if your compiler supports it, period.
> 
> However, those compilers that do support it typically have a number of
> different binary-incompatible build variants: figuring out which lib
> variant to link against without it in those cases is tricky, this is a
> frequent cause of problem reports caused by picking the wrong variant.
> 
> Actually, I could never really understand why more compilers don't support
> this :-(

I suppose because on Linux, it's not typical to have several variants. And
if you have just one variant, using

        -lwhatever

is not a big problem.

- Volodya