Not GTG (was Re: PING: Proposal for Boost 1.33.0 package)

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Sat Aug 20 00:37:00 GMT 2005


Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> 
> I just had a look into the boost packages and from my point of view they
> are not GTG, for various reasons.
> - The Cygwin naming convention of DLLs is not used:
> - The DLLs are not versioned.  They are on Linux:
> - The naming convention for static and dynamic link libs is not used:

Hmmm...I built boost on cygwin a while back, and I seem to remember that 
the 'gcc' toolset "did the right thing" on cygwin (but I could be 
wrong).  Is it possible that somebody broke the gcc toolset's cygwin 
support in the recent (last week) Boost-1.33 release?

--
Chuck



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