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

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:15:01 +0100,
Jelte Jansen <jelte at isc.org> wrote:

> that's not my problem, I can get it to compile, in fact with all default
> options it compiles just fine, at least on my system.
> 
> What I'm asking here is what configure should do if you specify
> - --without-boost-lib or --without-boost-system
> 
> Currently it'll fail during build (for --without-boost-lib because it
> naively included 'libno' now,

Is this true?  From a quick look at configure.ac it doesn't seem to be
possible.  I actually tried building it --without-boost-python, but no
Makefile has '-lno'.

> and for --without-boost-system it'll fail
> with unresolved symbols), which is certainly wrong.

In any case, I agree this is wrong.  My intent when I introduced
--with-boost-system and --with-boost-python was that it should be
at least buildable either with or without these features.

Of course, the bigger question remains:

> 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 share your concerns.  It's probably time to consider acceptable
level of dependency toward the production-ready version.

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JINMEI, Tatuya