[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#424038: Bug#424038: Bug#424038: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_program_options

[Olaf van der Spek]

On 5/15/07, Domenico Andreoli <cavok at debian.org> wrote:
> > Why doesn't it default to mt anymore?
>
> Because it was an arbitrary choice, it was my use of the Boost libraries.
>
> With 1.34.0 I wanted to give the right space to the needs of
> single-threaded users, which usually do not expect to do anything
> special to have their binaries not linked to libpthread.
>
> Since the default should have been the opposite, the -st variants,
> I decided that there would not have been any default at all.

What happens if -st is used while -mt should have been used and the
other way around?
Linker erorrs?
If not, isn't the second case much safer?