Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Jan-Pascal van Best
Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:24:32 -0500 (CDT) > Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is the thing aobut boost, it is not a library but basically a set of >> functions taht gets included in your program. >> > Those functions have to live somewhere. Headers are

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:24:32 -0500 (CDT) Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Potential problems: > > 1. file collisions. Make sure the internal versions are installed as > > package-specific libraries, NOT into /usr/lib/ directly. > > The boost libraries are simply includes, no binary libr

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Carlo Segre
I appreciate your comments On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Neil Williams wrote: On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:10:39 -0500 (CDT) Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of my packages uses the boost headers and distributes them in the original tarball. I have been modifying the configuration scripts to ign

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Felipe Sateler wrote: Carlo Segre wrote: Upstream prefers to continue distribution in the tarball and it would avoid having to continually patch the configuration scripts. Maybe you could convince upstream of providing a --with-system-boost option to use either the provi

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
Carlo Segre wrote: > Upstream prefers to > continue distribution in the tarball and it would avoid having to > continually patch the configuration scripts. Maybe you could convince upstream of providing a --with-system-boost option to use either the provided copy or the external ones. -- Fel

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:10:39 -0500 (CDT) Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of my packages uses the boost headers and distributes them in the > original tarball. I have been modifying the configuration scripts to > ignore the local copy and use the libboost-dev dependency instead. Si

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Carlo Segre wrote: One of my packages uses the boost headers and distributes them in the original tarball. I have been modifying the configuration scripts to ignore the local copy and use the libboost-dev dependency instead. Since these are headers and not real libraries

using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi All: One of my packages uses the boost headers and distributes them in the original tarball. I have been modifying the configuration scripts to ignore the local copy and use the libboost-dev dependency instead. Since these are headers and not real libraries, would it violate policy for m