Mattias Brändström wrote: > 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? I don't know. The current Boost package is the only Boost Cygwin package so far. You could try to compile some older Boost than 1.33.0 from sources.
> > :.:: mattias Vaclav Haisman
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