Re: [Boost-users] Building Boost 1.40

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Building Boost 1.40
From: Geoff Hilton (geoff.hilton_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-14 10:09:00

Andrew Maclean wrote:
> I use CMake and found I had to reconfigure and after tis the correct
> libraries were linked in with no problems. If you run make it may look
> for the older libraries first.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Geoff Hilton
> <geoff.hilton_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Dmitry V. Krivenok wrote:
>>> Andrew Maclean wrote:
>>>> I built Boost 1.40 on Linux and installed it Ok.
>>>> However are the libraries singlethreaded or multithreaded?
>>>> eg. the library names are like this:
>>>> libboost_python.so
>>>> libboost_python.so.1.40.0
>>>>
>>>> The older versions had -mt- in their name.
>>>> eg.
>>>> libboost_python-gcc43-mt.so
>>>> etc.
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> You can use --layout parameter to change libraries naming convention.
>>> Use the following command to see possible options:
>>>
>>> $ bjam --help | grep -A25 layout
>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Andrew
>> Indeed, I noticed this same issue as Andrew when I built it, at first I
>> thought this would be fine, but when I tried to compile, boost was still
>> trying to link against the no-longer-existing -mt- versions. I ended up
>> using --layout to use the old naming convention, but how might I go about
>> ensuring that it compiles correctly?
>>
>> I'm using Boost.Build for project management, here's my configuration:
>>
>> geoff_at_venus:~$ cat /etc/site-config.jam
>> # Copyright 2002, 2003 Vladimir Prus
>> # Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
>> # (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or
>> http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
>> project site-config ;
>> using gcc ;
>> using python : 2.6 : /usr ;
>> import os ;
>> local BOOST_ROOT = [ os.environ BOOST_ROOT ] ;
>> using boost : 1.40 : <include>$(BOOST_ROOT) <library>/usr/local/lib ;
>> lib libxslt
>>  : #no sources
>>  : <file>/usr/lib/libxslt.so.1
>>  ;
>> lib libxml2
>>  : libxslt
>>  : <name>xml2
>>   <search>/usr/lib
>>  :
>>  : <include>/usr/include/libxml2
>>  ;
>>
>> geoff_at_venus:~$ cat user-config.jam (possibly unnecessary, but posting for
>> the sake of being complete).
>>
>> project user-config ;
>> import os ;
>> local HOME = [ os.environ HOME ] ;
>> lib opencl
>>  : #no sources
>>  : <name>OpenCL
>>   <search>$(HOME)/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/OpenCL/common/lib/Linux64
>>  :
>>  : <include>$(HOME)/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/OpenCL/common/inc/
>>  ;
>>
>> geoff_at_venus:~/boostTest$ cat Jamroot.jam
>> import boost ;
>> boost.use-project ;
>> exe boostTest :
>>  [ glob *.cpp ]
>>  : <define>BOOST_LIB_DIAGNOSTIC=1
>>   <library>/site-config//libxml2
>>   <library>/boost//filesystem
>>   <library>/boost//system
>>   <library>/boost//program_options
>>   <threading>multi
>>  ;
>>
>> How might I make it compile correctly?
>>
>> Unrelatedly, how might I improve my current jam files in any way?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Geoff

Not quite sure I understand what you mean. Because boost is supposed to 
be auto-linking and such (especially with boost.build) I don't see what 
there is I could change. The above configuration files are all I have 
which are relevent, notice especially the site-config.jam file.

Geoff