Re: [Boost-users] I can't build boost!

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] I can't build boost!
From: Robert Dailey (rcdailey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-14 17:08:48

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir_at_[hidden]>wrote:

>
> No offense intended -- many people don't know, and there are alternatives.
> Can
> you please apply the attached, replace --layout=system with --layout=tagged
> and try again? You should get the same results that --layout=system had in
> 1.38.

I was not offended. I was actually joking about it, but it's hard to express
that through text.

It is not a bug -- system layout was changed on the purpose and will stay
> this
> way. It's just everybody has different requirements and desired naming.

What exactly was it changed to? I have *never* found a library that used a
naming convention that boost uses. I also have yet to find someone that
actually likes the mangled boost library names. There is no practical reason
to use mangled names as far as I'm concerned.

The only thing that I can think of that the extra mangling would address is
side-by-side installations of boost. For example, someone could have 1.38
and 1.39 installed together on the same system and library files will
coexist, and not be overwritten.

Anyway, thank you for the patch. I will try it out when I get home in a few
hours.