PING: Proposal for Boost 1.33.0 package

[Vaclav Haisman]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Jari Aalto wrote:

> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin-rDBXBDvO6BXQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
> | On Aug 17 17:38, Vaclav Haisman wrote:
> |
> | >
> | > I wonder what is wrong that I still got no response...
> |
> | Well, along the lines of recent discussions, your sdesc and ldesc
> | fields in the various setup.hint files are somewhat useless. Could
> | you please change them so that they say something about what boost
> | actually is? You could use the texts from some spec file of a Linux
> | distro, for instance.
> |
> | So, well, what *is* boost? Is it packed with some Linux distro by
> | default? Which one?
>
> Boost is generic C++ library and now when we have it, it means we can
> compile monotone too which depends on boost.

This is actually why I am making the package. Unfortunatelly, it is not 
possible to build monotone with it. For some reason I am not able to build 
Boost 1.33.0 with Boost.Test enabled. The build dies no matter what options I 
use, so the package is built --without-test. And monotone uses Boost.Test.

Despite that I think that the package will be useful to others even without it 
Boost.Test.

>
> Jari
>


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