On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 11:09:01PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> wrote: > >> The header knows what version it is, so it can use that to link to the > >> correct lib. > > > > The header is just a text file. It doesn't contain any library > > dependency information (or version information) at all, and there's > > boost/version.hpp
We only care about SONAME versions, not release versions, and we only need to care about what is available to the linker, and headers aren't. > > no way to associate a given header with any shared library at all. > > boost\filesystem\v3\config.hpp > boost/config/auto_link.hpp These are using proprietary vendor-specific #pragmas. It's pretty horrible, not to mention fragile--if any header fails to include the correct bits of magic, it all falls apart. If they had spent just a fraction of the time implementing that to support pkg-config, we wouldn't have a problem. OTOH, that mechanism could feasibly be adapted to report the library dependencies of the headers to auto-generate the necessary pkg-config files, should anyone have the time to implement that in auto_link.hpp and write a few tiny programs to spit out the information. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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