> >Curtis Olson wrote: > > > >Yes, there was some discussion a while back about adding the boost > >dependency. There should be prebuilt boost packages for most linux > >distributions. > > > >Regards, > > > >Curt. > > > On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 14:39 -0700, John Wojnaroski wrote: > Hmm, running Centos-5.3 and the latest boost version in that distro is > 1.33. Do you happen to know the latest version on RH? Debian is 1.35 > based on the packages in the stable release. > > I'm not all that conversant on the benefits of boost. what is gained? > Tried compiling a boost library for 1.38 on a 64-bit and ran into a few > problems and have not had the time to run them to ground. > > Sorry, either I missed it on the discussion lists or the topic was > discussed on the IRC or elsewhere. If the decision was made to require > it, the build system needs to be fixed. If the matter is still under > discussion then I would object to a de facto requirement in build 1.9.x.
http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg18743.html http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg19081.html It does look like we are still parsing --with-boost=no instead of just --with-boost[=DIR] Probably should: @@ -1349,2 +1349,1 @@ + --with-boost=PREFIX Specify the prefix path to boost - --with-boost[=DIR] use boost (default is yes) - it is possible to - specify the root directory for boost (optional) Ron ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
