Re: [boost] [GSoC] SIMD proposal

Subject: Re: [boost] [GSoC] SIMD proposal
From: Stefan Seefeld (stefan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-24 07:00:52

On 2011-03-24 05:49, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> On 24/03/2011 01:39, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>
>> I'd like to suggest using a build-system-agnostic tool to report such
>> build options, which can be picked up by any build system.
>> I'm specifically thinking of pkg-config, which can report build flags
>> based on .pc files that can be provided with binary packages. That
>> system is widely used with most (if not all) Linux distributions, and it
>> supports many more platforms.
>
> That's just one extra module to find out those options.
> Not everyone use pkg-config, even on Linux.
>
> So we agree that boost should also ship extra files on top of headers 
> and library binaries?

I think that's sensible, yes.

     Stefan

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