boost, boost_unit_test_framework
Mattias Brändström
thebrasse@brasse.org
Thu Oct 13 07:37:00 GMT 2005
Václav Haisman wrote:
>>
>>/usr/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc-mt-s-1_33.a*
>>/usr/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc-mt-s.a*
>
> This is called 'versioned' layout.
>
>
>>In my build scripts I would still like to be able to specify
>>-lboost_date_time and not -lboost_date_time-gcc-mt-s. Is it the
>>intention of the maintainer of the cygwin boost package that I should
>>make a symbolic link (ln -s libboost_date_time.a
>>libboost_date_time-gcc-mt-s.a) to the library that I want to use?
>
> You can either add the links or you can have something like
> BOOST_SUFFIX=-gcc-mt-s and use -lboost_date_time${BOOST_SUFFIX}.
>
Ok. I didn't think of using a suffix like you suggest. It looks nice and
I am going to use it in my build scripts.
>>Another question regarding the cygwin boost package is why the test
>>libraries are missing?
>
> Because its build is broken on Cygwin.
>
Have the test libraries worked in any previous version of boost for
Cygwin? If so, is there any way that I can install that version instead?
:.:: mattias
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