Pavol Droba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have encoutered a problem when building under win2k with cygwin gcc 3.2.
>
> Boost.Build select an extension for binary files according to OS platform. 
> So for the Windows paltform it selects .lib for library files and .obj for object 
>files.
>
> However cygwin is using unix-like .a for libs. When I have compiled regex library,
> I got libboost_regex.lib as an output, and cygwin ld did not recognized it.
> I had to build regex with sSUFLIB=.a 
>
> Is this a feature or a bug?

A known bug.  We'll fix it for v2.  The architecture of v1 doesn't
make it easy.

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