On Jan 1, 2012 9:49 PM, "Nilesh Govindarajan" <cont...@nileshgr.com> wrote: > > On Sun 01 Jan 2012 08:12:30 PM IST, Andrew Lowe wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm playing around with the Boost library, www.boost.org, at the > > moment and the question is in relation to it but the question also > > applies to other libraries I've played around with, where are the > > examples and doco kept? > > > > I can't seem to find the Boost example source code anywhere. I > > also can't find the doco that comes with Boost. Is there a default > > location that ebuilds should drop examples and doco when dealing with > > libraries such as Boost? Boost does not seem to have a USE flag that > > says "Install examples somewhere" so I'm at a bit of a loss as to > > where this stuff is? > > > > Any thoughts greatly appreciated, > > > > Andrew > > > > I don't know about the examples, but the doc useflag installs > documentation in /usr/share/doc/boost-<ver> >
The examples are also placed there, usually in compressed form. Rgds,
