On 12 November 2015 at 14:23, Francois Bissey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 13/11/2015, at 04:08, Dima Pasechnik <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> 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… > > The bulk yes, but there are a few libraries. Note that sage is currently > only using boost headers (the spkg is boost_cropped) but some > packages could use the libraries now (eclib) and some could in the > future.
The use of boost in eclib is very minor and optional, and not relevant for the parts of eclib which Sage uses. It would be easy to configure eclib to not use boost. But other packages might have it as a serious dependency. John > > Anyway it turns out this thread was not about full boost but boost_cropped. > > François > > -- > 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. -- 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.
