Package: libboost1.40-dev
Version: 1.40.0-1
Severity: normal
Hello,
this seems to be a leftover from the #541133 fix. The problem was that
linking with -lboost_something_-mt didn't work, because the -st libraries
were abandoned in favor of the -mt, which lost their -mt suffix. The fix
was adding symlinks in the form
libboost_something_-mt.so -> libboost_something_.so
However, this only partially fixes the problem, because the symlink is
only made for dynamic libraries, static versions still lack their -mt
counterpart. This results in the following problems:
- Link with -lboost_xxx_-mt still fails if you're linking statically.
- CMAKE won't find any static libraries when using Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS.
This is because when searching for a library, CMAKE finds libboost_xxx.so,
libboost_xxx-mt.so and libboost_xxx.a and considers the -mt.so the best
match because of the -mt suffix (libboost_xxx-mt.a would be a better
match, but it is missing)
Unfortunately, we have libraries in boost which have different semantics
when linked statically/dynamically (Boost.Test). Therefore, I'd like
having it fixed.
It could be fixed by several ways
- linking static libraries the same way as dynamic ones. I think this
would be the best, because it's consistent with the #541133 fix.
- dropping any support for linking with the -mt libraries from CMAKE
(since Debian doesn't maintain the -st/-mt distinction, it wouldn't matter
much). However, this would only solve the CMAKE issue.
Regards
Jiri Palecek
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