Fedora Core 3 Test Update: boost-1.32.0-3.fc3

Neal D. Becker ndbecker2 at verizon.net
Fri Dec 3 19:47:24 UTC 2004


Benjamin Kosnik wrote:

> 
>>I'm still wondering about whether it is necessary to ship both single and
>>multi-threaded versions of the boost libs.  Do you have any thoughts?
> 
> I don't think we need to ship anything but boost threads in single/mt
> configs. At least, that's what I gather from my non-rpm builds. Do you
> agree? If so, I'll change the bugzilla report you opened to reflect
> that, or should another be opened?
> 
> I would prefer this linkage issue to be handled by a policy in the
> threads package, but that is a design issue, not a packaging issue.
> However, wishing is fun, and it's a Friday, so I can't help it.
> 
> Anyway. I'll work on this specific issue in a bit, after I get feedback
> from Rene, okay?
> 

Please check with boost developers.  I believe what you say is not correct,
there are other libs that switch locking on/off based on single/multi
threading - but you should probably ask (someone that knows the answer).

boost dev mail is also available from news.gmane.org, also
http://thread.gmane.org.




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