Building and using shared libraries with bjam - linux

Question

Using bjam on ubuntu, I am building a c++ shared library and trying to use it in an executable. I have to build as shared since it wont link as static (lots of undefined references arise). Thats fine.
Two related problems:
1) Using a heirarchy of Jamfiles, my exe project (testServerHub) has a dependency on the shared library (pythonManager). Here's the Jamfile for the exe:
echo "Compiling serverHub//test" ;
# declare project name
project serverHub//testServerHub
: build-dir ../_gcc/intermediate
;
# build unit-test using these source files, dependent libraries and settings
exe testServerHub
: # Source
..\\..\\..\\common\\0_8_1\\test\\runner.cpp
successfulTest.cpp
# Dependent libraries by path and project name
../controller/pythonManager//pythonManager
/boost//unit_test_framework
: # Settings
<link>shared
;
install ..\\bin : testServerHub ;
And here's my lib Jamfile:
echo "Compiling serverHub/controller//pythonManager" ;
# declare project name
project serverHub/controller//pythonManager
: requirements
<define>URTH_SERVERHUB
: build-dir ../../_gcc/intermediate
;
# build library using these source files and settings
lib pythonManager
: ../../../../common/0_8_1/controller/pythonManager/pythonManager.cpp
../../../../common/0_8_1/controller/pythonManager/cppInterfaceBase.cpp
cppInterfaceServerHub.cpp
/boost/python//boost_python
/user-config//python
: <link>shared
;
# copy and rename
install ../../lib : pythonManager ;
If I run 'bjam pythonManager' the pythonManager shared library is built and copied to my project lib folder (by the final install command). However if I run 'bjam test', both testServerHub and pythonManager are built, but the libpythonManager.so is not copied to the project lib folder - the install command doens't run!
2) Okay, so as a temporary workaround, I build libpythonManager.so first and then build testServerHub executable. Both compile and link. At runtime, the executable complains about not being able to find libpythonManager.so. Not a great surprise since the runtime linker doesn't know about my project lib folder. How do I tell it to look in a certain directory for shared libraries? or how do I install libpythonManager.so into /usr/local/lib if the install command has no effect on dependent library builds?
Thank you very much
Si

Answer 1

I think that you could use <install-dependencies>on in the exe Jamfile, like in
install ..\\bin : testServerHub : <install-dependencies>on <install-type>LIB ;
This will install all the libraries (LIB) on which the exe depends.
See eg http://www.boost.org/doc/tools/build/doc/html/bbv2/tasks/installing.html as a reference.