On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Anssi Hannula <[email protected]> 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 -- Juancho
