On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:46:45 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > What does readelf -d test say? $ echo $LIBRARY_PATH /cvos/shared/apps/gcc/gcc-4.2.4//lib:/cvos/shared/apps/boost/ gcc-4.2/1.35.0/lib $ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH /cvos/shared/apps/gcc/gcc-4.2.4//lib:/cvos/shared/apps/boost/ gcc-4.2/1.35.0/lib:/cvos/shared/apps/sge/6.1/lib/lx26-amd64 $ g++ -o test test.cpp -lboost_regex $ readelf -d test Dynamic section at offset 0xf778 contains 24 entries: Tag Type Name/Value 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libboost_regex.so.2] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libstdc++.so.6] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libm.so.6] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libgcc_s.so.1] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6] 0x000000000000000c (INIT) 0x403d58 0x000000000000000d (FINI) 0x40b2a0 0x0000000000000004 (HASH) 0x400240 0x0000000000000005 (STRTAB) 0x400f48 0x0000000000000006 (SYMTAB) 0x400570 0x000000000000000a (STRSZ) 10385 (bytes) 0x000000000000000b (SYMENT) 24 (bytes) 0x0000000000000015 (DEBUG) 0x0 0x0000000000000003 (PLTGOT) 0x60f950 0x0000000000000002 (PLTRELSZ) 1008 (bytes) 0x0000000000000014 (PLTREL) RELA 0x0000000000000017 (JMPREL) 0x403968 0x0000000000000007 (RELA) 0x403920 0x0000000000000008 (RELASZ) 72 (bytes) 0x0000000000000009 (RELAENT) 24 (bytes) 0x000000006ffffffe (VERNEED) 0x4038b0 0x000000006fffffff (VERNEEDNUM) 3 0x000000006ffffff0 (VERSYM) 0x4037da 0x0000000000000000 (NULL) 0x0 $ ls -l /cvos/shared/apps/boost/gcc-4.2/1.35.0/lib/*regex* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 11 12:22 /cvos/shared/apps/boost/ gcc-4.2/1.35.0/lib/libboost_regex-mt.so -> libboost_regex-mt.so.1.35.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5881209 Jun 11 12:22 /cvos/shared/apps/boost/ gcc-4.2/1.35.0/lib/libboost_regex-mt.so.1.35.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jun 11 12:21 /cvos/shared/apps/boost/ gcc-4.2/1.35.0/lib/libboost_regex.so -> libboost_regex.so.1.35.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5881164 Jun 11 12:21 /cvos/shared/apps/boost/ gcc-4.2/1.35.0/lib/libboost_regex.so.1.35.0 So here I would have expected it to link against libboost_regex.so.1.35.0 instead of libboost_regex_so.2. What am I doing wrong here? -- Frederik