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 > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:> > > <mailto:[email protected] <javascript:>>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
