Re: boost macros use non-portable tac

[Peter Johansson]

On 09/27/2012 07:34 AM, Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> how do you feel about the solution from<http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7839>?
Hi Peter,

That makes sense to me, to add dylib in the file pattern, but I'm not 
sure how it deals with Diego's concern regarding the order of libraries. 
What is the desired order?

As far as I can understand the library can be named:

libboost_system.a
libboost_system-mt.a
libboost_system.so
libboost_system-mt.so
libboost_system.dylib
libboost_system-mt.dylib
libboost_system.dll
libboost_system-mt.dll
libboost_system.lib
libboost_system-mt.lib

But why are we searching for the library with 'ls' rather than letting 
the linker try to find the library. One could try first try linking 
against '-lboost_system-mt' and then against '-lboost-system'. The 
linker knows much better than us what suffixes libraries have on the 
system. If people don't mind that change, I can prepare a patch. WDYT?


Cheers,
Peter