[bind10-dev] how to build boost libraries on FreeBSD and MacOS X

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Jelte Jansen wrote:

> What I'm asking here is what configure should do if you specify
> - --without-boost-lib or --without-boost-system

It should fail immediately during configure or the code with missing 
headers/libraries should not have any attempt to build.

> Currently it'll fail during build (for --without-boost-lib because it
> naively included 'libno' now, and for --without-boost-system it'll fail
> with unresolved symbols), which is certainly wrong.

Several failed builds:
http://bind10.isc.org/~tester/builder/builder.html
these should have all failed at the configure step or don't fail at 
all.

> Are we making boost libs mandatory? If so, should we remove all
> non-boostlib usage from the source? (while i'm wary of having this
> run-time dependency added, esp. on something as changeable as boost, i'd
> love to get all the ifdefs out if they're not absolutely completely
> necessary)

I don't know.