title: Boost, bjam, and symbolic links
body: <p>I generated some Boost librairies with bjam, and I get many symbolic links.</p>
  
  <p>For date_time :</p>
  
  <p>libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.a</p>
  
  <p>libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.so -> libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.so.1.39.0</p>
  
  <p>libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.so.1.39.0</p>
  
  <p>libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt.a -> libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.a</p>
  
  <p>libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt.so -> libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.so.1.39.0</p>
  
  <p>Why don't I just get the .a and .so ?
  Why these 3 symbolic links ?
  And why do the original files have a so complicated name for the .so, with the release version mentionned twice ?</p>
  
  <p>Isn't it possible to just have :</p>
  
  <p>libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.a
  libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.so</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for help. I don't know what to do of these symbolic links.</p>
  
  <p>Note : I am a newbie in Linux.</p>