2009/10/28 Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>

This might be obvious, but such a soname would be wrong if the above naming
of libraries is used, since there would be no libboost_date_time-mt.so.4.

- Volodya

I've just checked what Debianers do. Currently, they set the soname to match the full library name (whereas, they used to follow more complex Boost naming schemes before):
~# readelf -a /usr/lib64/libboost_date_time.so.1.40.0 | grep -i soname
0x000000000000000e (SONAME) Library soname: [libboost_date_time.so.1.40.0]
nceorilnx02:~# readelf -a /usr/lib64/libboost_date_time-gcc42-1_34_1.so.1.34.1 | grep -i soname
0x000000000000000e (SONAME) Library soname: [libboost_date_time-gcc42-1_34_1.so.1.34.1]

So, I suggest that we follow Debian convention. I'm trying to figure out where to change the default soname-scheme, but I'm a little bit lost. From some documentation, I understand that the SOVERSION attribute should be changed for each library, but I do not see where it should be configured.

Denis