[Boost-users] automake + boost lib versions

From: Klett, Stefan (stefan.klett_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-07 05:12:28

Hi altogether,

I've got a problem with rolling a packet to distribute a library source
- first I tried to do this with boost-build  , but later on I had some
difficulties and fell back to automake.
 
What I need is a (hopefully convenient) way to deal with different
versions of the boost libraries - because I have to expect that the
names of these libraries will differ on nearly  all machines a potential
User of "my" library is trying to build the source.
 For example the date-time lib appears as:

/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-1_34_1.a
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-1_34_1.so
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-1_34_1.so.1.34.1
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42.a
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-d-1_34_1.a
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-d-1_34_1.so
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-d-1_34_1.so.1.34.1
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-d.a
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-d.so
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-mt-1_34_1.a
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-mt-1_34_1.so
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-mt-1_34_1.so.1.34.1
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-mt.a
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-mt-d-1_34_1.a
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-mt-d-1_34_1.so
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-mt-d-1_34_1.so.1.34.1
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-mt-d.a
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-mt-d.so
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-mt.so
/usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42.so

in the case of my library using the multithreaded version is preferred. 
Hardwiring  fails by the obvious reason that not everyone else is using
gcc42

Is there anyone of you who has some experience in writing a proper
configure.ac Makefile.am  that is  aware of these different
boost-library names ?  If so please give me a hint ...

Thank you very much in advance 
Best regards
Stefan

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