[Pkg-lyx-devel] boost symbols with -mt suffix (again?)

Per Olofsson pelle at dsv.su.se
Thu May 14 21:06:01 UTC 2009


Sven Hoexter wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:45:43PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
>> Sven Hoexter wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I don't remember the exact details but AFAIR we had some -mt discussion about
>>> boost already some time in the past. It looks like this 'feature' is back now
>>> with the 1.38.0 packages.
>>>
>>> Donno which way to go from here so this is just a heads up that we currently
>>> don't build on unstable.
>> I can't see any non-mt libraries. Isn't this simply a bug then? Why name
>> them -mt if there aren't any non-mt libs?
> 
> I don't remember when this came up for the first time but I think it was
> on -release when vorlon was still in charge of the release. So maybe the
> etch release cycle.
> 
> The latest reference is this post from Roger who mentions this change
> affecting schroot:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/03/msg00149.html
> 
> I'm currently preparing a patch for lyx (again).
> Those changing sonames with boost are pain. :-(

What's upstream calling the libs? Are Debian changing what upstream is
doing, or is lyx upstream's configure code wrong?

-- 
Pelle



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