From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-25 23:49:51
"John Torjo" <john.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:4014962C.3040600_at_torjo.com...
> Dear boosters,
>
> Again, I'm pretty frustrated that some libraries have source files
that
> need to be compiled separately (using bjam).
>
> I was thinking that we could have a directory '/boost/impl', and
each
> library that has sourse files could have an .hpp file that includes
all
> of its source files (that would normally need to be compiled
separately).
>
I think this might work with many of the libraries. I remember when a
similar issue came up before, though, William Kempf said that a dll is
necessary for Boost.Thread on Windows to clean up thread local
storage, and David Abrahams said that dll's are necessary for
Boost.Python.
Jonathan