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

Per Olofsson pelle at dsv.su.se
Thu May 14 21:34:02 UTC 2009


Sven Hoexter wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:16:28PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
>> Sven Hoexter wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:06:01PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
>>>
>>>> What's upstream calling the libs? Are Debian changing what upstream is
>>>> doing, or is lyx upstream's configure code wrong?
>>> As far as I remember upstream is by default insane and encodes the used
>>> compiler and version into the soname. I don't know how other distributions
>>> handle it but the Debian way is still an improvement compared to the default.
>>>
>>> Sven
>> So what is LyX's configure script expecting? Debian's boost packages?
> 
> LyX expects e.g. boost_filesystem and Debian's boost provides
> boost_filesystem-mt where -mt seems to be for multi-thread.

And who _provides_ these libraries called e.g. boost_filesystem without
-mt? If Debian doesn't, and upstream doesn't, then who does? Why is LyX
expecting this?

> 
> I think this is the starting point of the whole (old) discussion:
> http://teams.debian.net/lurker/message/20070729.230138.170fc848.en.html
> 
> Sven


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Pelle



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