Re: [Boost-users] packaging boost-1.37.0 for "LTIB"? [SOLVED]

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] packaging boost-1.37.0 for "LTIB"? [SOLVED]
From: Robert P. J. Day (rpjday_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-04 11:05:22

On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Steven Watanabe wrote:

> AMDG
>
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > The bjam syntax is out of date.
> > > echo "using python : $PYTHON_VERSION : %{_prefix} ;" >user-config.jam
> > > $BJAM --user-config=user-config.jam toolset=gcc debug release
> > > --prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{pfx} %{_prefix} install
> > >
> >
> >   "out of date" with respect to what?
>
> It won't work with boost 1.37.  It should have worked
> before 1.34.
>
> >   remember, this is boost-1.31.0
> > so it might be that that bjam syntax is correct for back then, no?
>
> Yep.

  i got the LTIB packaging for boost-1.37.0 to work just by
simplifying things down to their essense.  the relevant part of the
.spec file is now:

========================
...
%Build
./configure --prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{pfx}/%{_prefix} \
    --with-bjam=/home/rday/bin/bjam
make

%Install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
make install
...
=========================

where /home/rday/bin/bjam is the result of doing a native configure,
grabbing the native compilation of bjam, stashing it to the side where
it would be found, then allowing boost to be build via LTIB, which (as
i mentioned in an earlier post) wraps the entire build process with
some aliases so that all compilation is done transparently with a
cross-compile toolchain.  and that seemed to work, barring a bunch of
bzip2-related errors that i can see explained on the web page.

  so things seem to be humming along for now.  thanks for all the
guidance.  i'm sure i'll have more silly questions in the near future.

rday

p.s.  i'm assuming, then, that all that earlier python stuff you can
see above is no longer necessary since, AFAICT, i don't need it now
for 1.37.0.
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