[Boost-users] Re: shipping software depending on boost

From: Lars Gullik Bjønnes (larsbj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-29 08:41:46

"Wieger Wesselink " <wieger_at_[hidden]> writes:

| Hi,
>
| I have written some code for a software package that my group at the university is distributing, and it has dependencies on boost. Now my boss is getting very worried about the extra complications this brings for a user to install the software (note that the dependencies are not only header files). The package is currently installed using an autoconf script.
>
| I wonder how others deal with this situation. Is it best to ship the complete boost library as part of the installation, and handle the compilation of the used boost libraries by autoconf?

With lyx we handle this by extracting what we need from the boost
sources and distrubute that with the .tar.gz package. It is then build
with autoconf/automake.

Have a look at http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/ if
you want to see how we organize this.

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	Lgb