Hi, Peter Simons wrote:
> | commit 9db32c5cf79c749d39a8fd3317ae6cc03bebde7c > | Author: eelco <ee...@70bd8c7a-acb8-0310-9f0d-9cc1c95dcdbb> > | Date: Fri Apr 3 23:54:20 2009 +0000 > | > | * Boost: cut the installed size from 257 MB (!!!) to 58 MB. It > | required all that space because it was building static/shared, > | single-thread/multi-threaded, and debug/production versions of the > | libraries - as well as every combination of those. Now we build > | only the shared, multi-threaded, production version, which needs > | only 8 MB. [...] > > this change breaks my installation. I do need some of the variants that > were deleted from the expression, i.e. the variants for single-threaded > and debug builds. Arguably, it would be nice if the Boost expression > would offer more granularity to allow depending on specific libraries in > specific variants, but until we have that, removing arbitrary libraries > from the installation doesn't sound like a good idea. There is now a variant that builds all the variants (and it's the default for nix-env -i boost). -- Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
