[Pkg-lyx-devel] boost symbols with -mt suffix (again?)

Sven Hoexter sven at timegate.de
Thu May 14 21:28:37 UTC 2009


On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:16:28PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
> Sven Hoexter wrote:
> > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:06:01PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
> > 
> >> What's upstream calling the libs? Are Debian changing what upstream is
> >> doing, or is lyx upstream's configure code wrong?
> > 
> > As far as I remember upstream is by default insane and encodes the used
> > compiler and version into the soname. I don't know how other distributions
> > handle it but the Debian way is still an improvement compared to the default.
> > 
> > Sven
> 
> So what is LyX's configure script expecting? Debian's boost packages?

LyX expects e.g. boost_filesystem and Debian's boost provides
boost_filesystem-mt where -mt seems to be for multi-thread.


I think this is the starting point of the whole (old) discussion:
http://teams.debian.net/lurker/message/20070729.230138.170fc848.en.html

Sven
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