Am 25.01.2013 20:02, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 24/01/13 21:15, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 24.01.2013 18:57, schrieb Jacques Montier: >>> 2013/1/24 microcai <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> [...] >>> >>>> >>> >>>> Libreoffice-4.0 needs boost > 1.49 (so works with >>> boost-1.52.0-r5) and >>> >>>> Nightshade LSS (for planetarium but not in portage) needs >>> boost >>> < 1.5 >>> >>>> (so works with 1.49.0-r2). >>> >>>> Is it possible to install both 1.49 and 1.52 (in new slot) ? >>> >>> update Nightshade to work with boost 1.52 is the only way to go. >> [...] >>> I already tried that, but Nightshade doesn't compile with >>> boost-1.52... :-(( >>> >> >> I could rant about the stupidity that is boost and/or packages that >> depend on it for some time but Flameeyes does a far better job at that. > > I wonder what the view on bundled boost headers is with Gentoo devs. I'm > currently working on a project where I need boost, and now I'm thinking > about using BCP (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/tools/bcp) to > bundle what I need within the project. At least this would guarantee > that the package wouldn't be affected by this issue. > >
As I understand it, bundling the headers is exactly what you are supposed to do with boost. Regards, Florian Philipp
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