Re: [boost] [CMake] what to do now?

Subject: Re: [boost] [CMake] what to do now?
From: Paul Fultz II (pfultz2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-04-14 17:23:06

On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 1:31:36 PM UTC-5, Peter Dimov wrote:
>
> Paul Fultz II wrote: 
> > Doesn't boost install into the standard ${PREFIX}/include and 
> > ${PREFIX}/lib directories? 
>
> "b2 install" does, yes. 
>
> > I don't understand how bpm will remove the headers and the libs that 
> were 
> > installed for a module. 
>
> bpm (which is as of yet still a toy and is not being used) doesn't install 
> into $PREFIX/include and $PREFIX/lib. The use case is that you choose a 
> directory in which to put Boost and it downloads the libraries there. It 
> doesn't have an install step that copies the headers and the libraries 
> into 
> a systemwide location. 
>

Thats what I though it did. So at the same time, it doesn't have a way to
remove libraries after they have been installed. It gets a little more
complicated keep track of which files goes to which library when they all
install at the same time.

 

>
> That's more of a Windows workflow, where there is no systemwide location 
> for 
> libraries, so one just puts them wherever convenient; but given that most 
> Linux distros already have their own Boost in /usr/include and /usr/lib, a 
> typical case for installing by hand would be to use a newer release which 
> one might also want to put not in /usr/{include,lib}. So whether you 
> download somewhere and copy to $PREFIX == /opt/boost-1.61.0 (say) or 
> download directly into $PREFIX makes not much of a difference. 
>
> > Yes, but having a tool to retrieve these requirements could change the 
> way 
> > libraries are tested. Instead they can be tested against just its 
> > dependencies using `cget build --test` instead of needing a full 
> checkout. 
>
> That's a good point. Decentralizing the tests might be a good idea. 
>

Plus the libraries can take advantage of travis and appveyor for testing.
 

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