[Mageia-dev] [110263] (boost build change)

[Anssi Hannula]

On 25.09.2011 04:26, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>> In addition, the change modifies SONAMEs to a non-upstream configuration
>> (it adds '-mt' to them), plus changes the devel symlink names to have an
>> '-mt' in them (which is easily workaroundable with compatibility
>> symlinks which I'm adding now, though).
>> This makes some sense on Fedora as they package both single-threaded and
>> multi-threaded versions of all the libraries, while we (and e.g. Debian)
>> have only the multi-threaded versions (without '-mt' as per upstream).
>>
>>
>> (BTW, while it doesn't affect us, the Fedora convention seems quite
>> scary, since software could expect the non-'-mt' variant to be
>> multithreaded as per upstream and other distros...)
>>
>>
> 
> True, some weeks ago I had to patch flaw to look for
> libboost_filesystem-mt instead of libboost_filesystem, maybe there are
> other programs that will break too :S

Yes, I noticed this because Stormi reported an issue in IRC yesterday.
As I've now added symlinks so that the standard names work again, the
patch isn't necessary anymore, though.

-- 
Anssi Hannula