On Feb 9, 2013, at 8:10 AM, Greg Landrum <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 4:36 PM, William G. Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Out of curiosity, why did you decide not to use whatever boost version
>>> fink normally installs?
>>> 
>>> -greg
>> 
>> Fink has boost version 1.35, which I understood to be too old, and 
>> boost1.46.1.cmake, which I never was able to get rdkit to compile against 
>> (very possibly my ignorance).  So I thought the most expedient thing was to 
>> use the latest boost and then if it works, nag the maintainer of boost 1.35 
>> to update it.  I think I'm far enough along to ask now.
>> 
> 
> 1.35? Wow... that's 5 years old. That's almost as bad as CentOS 5! [1]
> 
> -greg
> [1] Problems building the RDKit on CentOS 5 caused by either buggy
> compilers or old Boost versions were a recurring theme here for a
> while, so that's a sort of bad joke.

I suspect they wanted to migrate to boost.cmake.  Will rdkit build with that (I 
couldn't get it to work, but that doesn't mean a whole lot…).  If so, what is 
the minimum version that is compatible?



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