Boost provides a set of free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. It includes libraries for linear algebra, pseudorandom number generation, multithreading, image processing, regular expressions and unit testing.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.3 platform.
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Download size: 83 MB
Estimated disk space required: 1.3 GB (168 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 2.7 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 1.2 SBU for tests)
ICU-62.1, Python-2.7.15, and Open MPI
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/boost
Install Boost by running the following commands:
./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr && ./b2 stage threading=multi link=shared
To run the Boost.Build's regression test, Python-2.7.15 is required. Run the tests with: issue pushd tools/build/test; python test_all.py; popd. All 150 tests should pass.
To run every library's regression tests, issue pushd status; ../b2; popd. A few
tests may fail. They take a very long time (over 119 SBU at -j4)
and use a very large amount of disk space (46 GB). You should use
the -jN
switch to speed
them up.
Now, as the root
user:
./b2 install threading=multi link=shared && ln -svf detail/sha1.hpp /usr/include/boost/uuid/sha1.hpp
threading=multi
: This
parameter ensures that Boost is
built with multithreading support.
link=shared
: This parameter
ensures that only shared libraries are created, except for
libboost_exception and libboost_test_exec_monitor which are created
as static. Most people will not need the static libraries, and most
programs using Boost only use the
headers. Omit this parameter if you do need static libraries.
ln -svf detail/sha1.hpp
...
: The uuid/sha1.hpp
used to be a regular header, but by boost_1_66_0 it had been
changed to load the similar detail/sha1.hpp
header, with a message that it
had been deprecated. It has now been removed, but not every package
which uses it has been changed. An example is one of the libraries
downloaded as a git version by libreoffice. The symlink enables
this and similar packages to build.
-jN
: This switch may be added to the
b2 command lines, to
run up to N processes in parallel.
--with-python=python3
: Add this switch
to the bootstrap
command, if you want Boost to use Python3 instead of Python2.
Last updated on 2018-08-21 06:59:25 -0700