On Wed, 2 Sept 2026 at 17:11, Gustav Lindberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Making these changes upstream would require everyone who uses boost to build > the boost-asio shared library whether they need it or not, which would be > wasteful. Note that my change doesn't require all openembedded users to build > the shared library, it's still possible to use the boost recipe without the > boost-asio recipe and get the header-only version of boost-asio without the > shared library. The point in making these changes here is that users can > decide whether they want to use the header-only version or the shared library > by using the correct recipe.
That's not the preferred way. The better way is to keep everything in a single recipe, and enabled the shared library (or not) with a PACKAGECONFIG option, ideally one that passes down a command line option to the boost build system. Alex
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