On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 20:30:22 UTC, François wrote:
>
> There is a ticket with a more recent boost: 
> http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17966 
>
> It basically works on linux. It needs love on OS X because 
> boost's build system has no idea there is such a thing as 
> "install_name" on OS X and it proves being one of the fatal 
> problems on "El Capitan". 
>

isn't the bulk of boost just a bunch of C++ hearder files?
Thus, I don't understand how these can be broken on OSX...
 

>
> Other things needed is a spkg-src script to purge the tarball 
> from heavy stuff that's not used. 
>
> Francois 
>
> On 11/12/15 09:14, Volker Braun wrote: 
> > The script can also be used in that case, just download it by hand and 
> > leave out the --url=... 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 12:06:39 PM UTC-8, Emmanuel 
> > Charpentier wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >     Le mercredi 11 novembre 2015 16:58:35 UTC+1, Volker Braun a écrit : 
> > 
> >         PS: with http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/19470 
> >         <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/19470> updating packages would 
> >         get much easier, just run 
> > 
> >         sage --package update boost 1.58 --url=... 
> > 
> > 
> >     *VERY*  nice idea ! But it can't be applied to Boost, which is 
> >     distributed via @#!&! Sourceforge and therefore has no stable URL... 
> > 
> >     I'll try to do that "à l'ancienne"... 
> > 
> >     HTH, 
> > 
> >     -- 
> >     Emmanuel Charpentier 
> > 
> > 
> >         to download the tarball and update the relevant configuration 
> >         files in Sage 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >         On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 7:48:26 AM UTC-8, Volker 
> >         Braun wrote: 
> > 
> >             egrep -r boost src/sage 
> > 
> >             Sage graphs also use boost 
> > 
> >             If you need a newer version the go ahead and package it! 
> > 
> > 
> >             On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 4:06:21 AM UTC-8, 
> >             Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: 
> > 
> >                 Dear list, 
> > 
> >                 I just discovered that Sage installs a Boost library 
> >                 (it's, curiously, called boost-cropped, but according to 
> >                 its SPKG.txt, currently contains all of Boost, without 
> >                 patches). 
> > 
> >                 The current version is 1.52. I discovered that this 
> >                 version is too old at least for the rstan package of R 
> >                 (a diabolically efficient MCMC sampler), which needs 
> >                 Boost>=1.58. See this thread on stan-users 
> >                 <
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/stan-users/XygoXG0SoTM> 
> >                 for details. 
> > 
> >                 Hence two questions : 
> > 
> >                 1) What in Sage uses Boost ? 
> > 
> >                 2) Is someone maintaining it ? 
> > 
> >                 Sincerely yours, 
> > 
> >                 -- 
> >                 Emmanuel Charpentier 
>
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