Re: [Boost-users] backporting filesystem v3

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] backporting filesystem v3
From: Arash Abghari (arash.abghari_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-14 14:29:33

Thanks for the explanation. I will see how I can fit it best to my
problem.

Best,

Arash

 On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:14:17 +0100
Julian Gonggrijp <j.gonggrijp_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Arash Abghari wrote:
> 
> > I wonder if it is possible to backport filesystem v3 to 1.40 by
> > replacing source folder from 1.46.
> 
> In general, such an approach might cause troubles because of 
> inter-library dependencies.
> 
> Without any knowledge about the implementation of Boost.Filesystem, 
> I can tell you that there is another way which is at least as 
> effective and at least as easy. Keep your 1.46 installation as it 
> is. Install the complete 1.40 tree in another directoy and build 
> it with the option --with-libraries=filesystem set. This may 
> overwrite your additional copy of the 1.46 headers in some 
> system-wide directory like /usr/local/include; in that case, just 
> re-copy it from $BOOST_1_46/boost. Alternatively, you can use 
> custom target directory settings from the bootstrap script (refer 
> to bootstrap --help for more information).
> 
> Then, for all Boost libraries except Filesystem just keep using 
> version 1.46. For the Filesystem library, include from 
> $BOOST_1_40/boost and link to the library that you built when 
> installing version 1.40.
> 
> HTH,
> -Julian
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