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

[Per Olofsson]

Sven Hoexter wrote:
> 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?

I'm very busy, so if you could do that, that would be great.

-- 
Pelle