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

[Sven Hoexter]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:34:02PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:

> > LyX expects e.g. boost_filesystem and Debian's boost provides
> > boost_filesystem-mt where -mt seems to be for multi-thread.
> 
> And who _provides_ these libraries called e.g. boost_filesystem without
> -mt? If Debian doesn't, and upstream doesn't, then who does? Why is LyX
> expecting this?

Quoting the old mail from Domenico:
First blocking issue is an unfortunate mess in library naming. Upstream
build system provides two ways to name libraries, while one is not
suitable for linux distributions (no version in the soname) the other
is at least difficult to manage in a portable way (fully decorated
sonames encoding compiler, library version, multi-thread ability, etc). 


According to that the name without the -mt is one of the two ways provided
by upstream.
So, yes the current variant seems to be Debian specific. At the moment I've no
other information about the why and if it should stay this time.

So who's going to write the bugreport or just asks Steve if it's an error or
not?


Sven
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