Re: [gentoo-user] Where's the examples?????
On Sun 01 Jan 2012 08:12:30 PM IST, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I'm playing around with the Boost library, www.boost.org, at the moment and the question is in relation to it but the question also applies to other libraries I've played around with, where are the examples and doco kept? I can't seem to find the Boost example source code anywhere. I also can't find the doco that comes with Boost. Is there a default location that ebuilds should drop examples and doco when dealing with libraries such as Boost? Boost does not seem to have a USE flag that says Install examples somewhere so I'm at a bit of a loss as to where this stuff is? Any thoughts greatly appreciated, Andrew I don't know about the examples, but the doc useflag installs documentation in /usr/share/doc/boost-ver -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Where's the examples?????
On Jan 1, 2012 9:45 PM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: Hi all, I'm playing around with the Boost library, www.boost.org, at the moment and the question is in relation to it but the question also applies to other libraries I've played around with, where are the examples and doco kept? I can't seem to find the Boost example source code anywhere. I also can't find the doco that comes with Boost. Is there a default location that ebuilds should drop examples and doco when dealing with libraries such as Boost? Boost does not seem to have a USE flag that says Install examples somewhere so I'm at a bit of a loss as to where this stuff is? Any thoughts greatly appreciated, Andrew Usually USE=docs install the docs. Also, some packages have USE=examples. The customary location is /usr/share/docs/$PACKAGE-$VERSION Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] Where's the examples?????
On Jan 1, 2012 9:49 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Sun 01 Jan 2012 08:12:30 PM IST, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I'm playing around with the Boost library, www.boost.org, at the moment and the question is in relation to it but the question also applies to other libraries I've played around with, where are the examples and doco kept? I can't seem to find the Boost example source code anywhere. I also can't find the doco that comes with Boost. Is there a default location that ebuilds should drop examples and doco when dealing with libraries such as Boost? Boost does not seem to have a USE flag that says Install examples somewhere so I'm at a bit of a loss as to where this stuff is? Any thoughts greatly appreciated, Andrew I don't know about the examples, but the doc useflag installs documentation in /usr/share/doc/boost-ver The examples are also placed there, usually in compressed form. Rgds,
