[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#424038: problem for libraries names between ax_boost.m4 and debian packages

[Gauthier Quesnel]

Domenico Andreoli a écrit :
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 08:53:08PM +0200, Gauthier Quesnel wrote:
> [...]
> > The ax_boost.m4 script does not detect the correct library because
> > the "debian libraries names" are not defined in the script. Now, my
> > question:
> > 	what is the best way to correct this ?
> > 	* modify the ax_boost*.m4 script or
> > 	* modify the debian packages ?
> > 	:-)
> of course fix the ax_boost*.m4 script :)

I suspected it  :-D

> please have a look at [0]. yes, it is difficult to believe, but
> currently there is no portable way to guess boost library names.

ok.

> when they started to make such crazy names i provided commodity links
> for mortal people, these are the real "debian library names", but they
> are not portable across linux distributions. i even provided "default"
> links to multi-thread libraries, but it was an arbitrary choice i now
> regret to have done.
	
ok ok. I did not know this policy of libraries names. 

> until few days ago i thought bjam/boost-build could be used to
> portably link boost libraries but i was wrong. these names are built
> in Jamfile.v2 at the root of boost source tree and there is no way to
> make boost-build tell you which are they once you are out of the
> boost source tree.

Ok ok. Thank you for all these precise details.

Now a new problem with the main function of the boost unit
framework: :-(

#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>
using namespace boost::unit_test_framework;

void my_test_function()
{ }

test_suite* init_unit_test_suite( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
    test_suite* test = BOOST_TEST_SUITE( "Master test suite" );   
    test->add( BOOST_TEST_CASE( &my_test_function ) );
    return test;
}

The commands:
	$ g++ test.cc -lboost_unit_test_framework-mt
	or
	$ g++ test.cc -lboost_unit_test_framework-st

return:
	/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.3/../../../../lib/crt1.o: In
	function `_start': (.text+0x18): undefined reference to `main'
	collect2: ld a retourné 1 code d'état d'exécution

This function (main) must be provided by the libboost-test1.34 [1].



Gauthier.

|1] http://www.boost.org/libs/test/doc/components/utf/index.html#Example


> cheers
> domenico
> 
> [0]
> http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#library-naming
> 
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