[Gnash-dev] Boost-linkage

[Markus Gothe]

Rob Savoye wrote:
> Markus Gothe wrote:
>> Why not just add "`ls /some/path/boost_thread-*.so`" to the list?
> 
>   I may wind up doing that, but then I'd have to sort out all the
> results and figure out which one is the correct library. As far as I can
> tell, there are only a few variations we need to look for, hence the
> current implementation. A day or so will probably determine if I have to
> change this to doing an ls, and going from there.
> 
>   I personally find it quite amazing that for all the "portability" of
> Boost, they follow an completely insane way of naming libraries.
> 
I think we are using the wrong approach here Rob. Do we really want to
*LINK* against boost when building from source. All the the code is in
the headers afaik. I think we should look at other projects using boost
on this issue, which needs further investigation.

//Markus

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