Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #44118, comment 1


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Jun 23, 2014, 2:11:46 PM (10 years ago)
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cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)
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  • Ticket #44118, comment 1

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    1 The "`-mt`" stands for "multi-threaded". It gets added by the `+no_single` variant to boost.
     1The "`-mt`" stands for "multi-threaded". It gets added by the `+no_single` variant to boost. If you want the un-suffixed versions of the library, install boost without the `+no_single` variant (i.e. change the "`+`" in front of the variant to a "`-`").
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     3While this is a user error/misunderstanding here, it probably could have been avoided if the boost Portfile had cleared this up for users itself with a better variant description or something. Right now the variant description for `+no_single` just says:
     4{{{
     5[+]no_single: Disable building single-threaded libraries
     6}}}
     7It takes external knowledge about boost to realize that that variant description actually means that only libraries suffixed with `-mt` will be installed. It would probably be easier for the user if that were explicitly spelled out instead, either in that description, or in some notes. Also, the variants should probably be renamed to fit the MacPorts variant naming convention of not starting variants with "`no_`".