RE: [boost] 1.30.0 RPMs

From: Malte Starostik (malte_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-02 05:30:11

On Monday, June 02 Rene Rivera wrote:
>[2003-06-02] Malte Starostik wrote:
>
><snip>
>>In order to save some time downloading you can as well:
>>* get only boost-jam.spec and boost.spec from the URL above
>>* get the boost sources from boost.org (tar.bz2 version, not tar.gz)
>>* copy tools/build/jam_src/ somewhere else and rename it to
>boost-jam-3.1.4/
>>* from the boost-jam-3.1.4/'s parent dir, run tar -cf 
>boost-jam-3.1.4.tar 
>>boost-jam-3.1.4/ && bzip2 boost-jam-3.1.4.tar and copy the resulting
>bzip2ed 
>>tarball to the SOURCES subdir of your rpm root directory.
>>* build boost-jam with rpm -bb boost-jam.spec and install it
>
>OK, that seems rather arduos when you can just:
>
>    cd $BOOST_ROOT/tools/build/jam_src
>    sh ./build.sh --- dist
>
>Then install the resulting RPM(s).
>
>Any reason why you don't use that instead? Or for that matter 
>use the RPM in
>the SourceForge files distribution section?

For build.sh, because I didn't know about it, for the ones from SF,
can't remember what exactly but I had some problems with those in the
past.
One thing I don't like about the .spec file inside jam_src is that it
only works when rpm is invoked with some additional environment vars
set, basically intended for invokation via jam. IMHO a .spec file
shouldn't require this and build fine with rpm -b[abcips] or rpm
-t[abcips]
But thanks, I'll try them again.

-Malte