How does libtool decide which so to link against?

[Giles Anderson]

I am sure this has been asked before, so apologies upfront.

I have upgraded Boost and find that I have to re-link my own executables.
Should I have to? I dont really want to.

I have these Boost.File System libraries placed:

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 gander gander     29 2010-10-22 12:41 
/home/gander/lib64/libboost_filesystem.so -> libboost_filesystem.so.1.44.0      
                                                                                
                    
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 gander gander 188343 2010-10-22 12:41 
/home/gander/lib64/libboost_filesystem.so.1.44.0


and I have an executable which is being built with:

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -I/home/gander/include   -Wall -O3 -m64 -mtune=k8 
-MT gadirs-gadirs.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/gadirs-gadirs.Tpo -c -o gadirs-gadirs.o 
`test -f 'gadirs.cpp' || echo './'`gadirs.cpp
mv -f .deps/gadirs-gadirs.Tpo .deps/gadirs-gadirs.Po
rm -f gadirs
/bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CXX   --mode=link g++  -Wall -O3 -m64 -mtune=k8 -
L/home/gander/lib64  -o gadirs gadirs-gadirs.o -lboost_filesystem

All done with standard autotools.

Is there a way to force it to link against the link name?

Isnt that what its there for?

Giles Anderson