[Boost-users] [Boost 1.39] different naming?

Subject: [Boost-users] [Boost 1.39] different naming?
From: Christoph (christoph.duelli_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-04 15:24:19

I built Boost 1.38 (and earlier) with the following options
--buildid=xxxx --layout=system

This resulted in libs named
libboost_regex-mt-xxxx.so

With Boost 1.39 the libs (they *are* built with multi-threading support) are
named 'only'
libboost_regex-xxxx.so
(note the missing "-mt")

When linking against Boost libs I have written -lboost_regex-mt-xxxx in my
code. Was that a bad idea (I mean the including -mt part)?

I can fix this by passing --buildid=mt-xxxx to get the old names, but I am
curious if that change was done on purpose.
(I would like to avoid having to change Boost libs' names in my makefiles
with every second Boost release or so ;-)

So, to make the questions clear:
1) why was the change made?
2) is linking against sth like -lboost_regex-mt a bad idea? If so, why?
3) will the new naming remain?

Best regards,
and thanks a bunch for a bunch of helpful libs

Christoph