[C++-sig] Re: help building hello world example on Debian

[David Abrahams]

Faheem Mitha <faheem at email.unc.edu> writes:

> On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 15:20:28 +0000 (UTC), Faheem Mitha
> <faheem at email.unc.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 07:56:43 -0400, David Abrahams
>> <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>
>>> Faheem Mitha <faheem at email.unc.edu> writes:
>
>>>> Looking at tools/build/vi, I see a lot of files ending with the words
>>>> jam. I have all the relevant binary Debian packages installed, and the
>>>> only place I see it is in
>>>> /usr/share/doc/libboost-doc/HTML/tools/build/v1 which includes a few
>>>> random files like python.jam, which do appear to correspond to the
>>>> files in tools/build in the boost sources. Wonder if some of these
>>>> files did not get copied by mistake.
>>>>
>>>> Regardless, these files should be part of a dev package, not a doc
>>>> package if they are required for building.
>>>
>>> I don't know anything about packages; I don't make the debian
>>> distros.  You should talk to whoever is responsible for that.
>>
>> Ok. Looks like I will be filing a bug report. libboost-dev looks like
>> a reasonable starting point. Any comments from other Debian users
>> here? Is all this already supplied in Debian and I am not aware of it
>> somehow?
>
> The following Bugzilla bug report looks like it is relevant in this
> context.
>
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=102390
>
> In the light of this thread, I don't understand Benjamin Kosnik's
> comment that "With Boost 1.31.0-4, boost-jam is deprecated..."

Me neither, though I can say that the -4 release suffix is a redhat
thing, not a Boost thing.  *We* certainly didn't deprecate
Boost.Build.  I don't know if RedHat can deprecate it, or what that
would mean.

> Were the developers ever contacted about this?

Which developers?  Not me.

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Dave Abrahams
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