Merge pull request #262 from germandiagogomez/boost-macosx-lib-detection

BoostDependency dylib detection added.

authors.txt

@@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ Mathieu Duponchelle
 Jouni Roivas
 Rafaël Kooi
 Marko Raatikainen
+German Diago Gomez

dependencies.py

@@ -510,7 +510,13 @@ class BoostDependency(Dependency):
             self.lib_modules_mt[modname] = fname
 
     def detect_lib_modules_nix(self):
-        globber = 'libboost_*.so' # FIXME, make platform independent.
+        libsuffix = None
+        if mesonlib.is_osx():
+            libsuffix = 'dylib'
+        else:
+            libsuffix = 'so'
+
+        globber = 'libboost_*.{}'.format(libsuffix)
         if self.boost_root is None:
             libdirs = mesonlib.get_library_dirs()
         else: