Re: [Gnash-dev] patch for boost detection

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 09:15:52PM -0600, Rob Savoye wrote:
> Patrice Dumas wrote:
> 
> > - the cleanup_slots symbol isn't found on my system in libboost_thread;
> 
>   What does 'nm --demangle /usr/lib/libboost_thread.a | grep "T "' show
> ? On my FC5 machine, this appears to be Boost 1.33.1.

I attach that.

>   Since the library name is highly variable, (maybe someday it'll be
> consistent) I wonder if this should be the *full name* to the library,
> and not just the directory without a test at all. It'd then also be
> possible to strip off the basename to use for LIBS.

I am not convinced it is worth the trouble and change in the convention 
that --with is for directories. In my opinion we should better add to the 
boostnames since it would also be usefull for detection of library without 
--with.

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Pat