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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[8dfc5c3] | 7 | <!ENTITY boost-download-http "https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/&boost-version;/source/boost_&boost-dl-version;.tar.bz2">
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[47969a6] | 8 | <!ENTITY boost-download-ftp " ">
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[b6659065] | 9 | <!ENTITY boost-md5sum "a1332494397bf48332cb152abfefcec2">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY boost-size "91 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY boost-buildsize "927 MB (168 MB installed)">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY boost-time "1.7 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 1.1 SBU for tests)">
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[47969a6] | 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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[355495ce] | 15 | <sect1 id="boost" xreflabel="Boost-&boost-version;">
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[47969a6] | 16 | <?dbhtml filename="boost.html"?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>Boost-&boost-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="boost">
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[355495ce] | 26 | <primary sortas="a-Boost">Boost</primary>
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[47969a6] | 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to Boost</title>
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| 31 |
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[355495ce] | 32 | <para>
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[fa29663] | 33 | <application>Boost</application> provides a set of free peer-reviewed
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| 34 | portable C++ source libraries. It includes libraries for linear algebra,
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| 35 | pseudorandom number generation, multithreading, image processing, regular
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| 36 | expressions and unit testing.
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[355495ce] | 37 | </para>
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[47969a6] | 38 |
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[6b3a3fe4] | 39 | &lfs83_checked;
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[47969a6] | 40 |
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| 41 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 42 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 43 | <listitem>
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[355495ce] | 44 | <para>
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| 45 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&boost-download-http;"/>
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| 46 | </para>
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[47969a6] | 47 | </listitem>
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| 48 | <listitem>
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[355495ce] | 49 | <para>
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| 50 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&boost-download-ftp;"/>
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| 51 | </para>
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[47969a6] | 52 | </listitem>
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| 53 | <listitem>
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[355495ce] | 54 | <para>
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| 55 | Download MD5 sum: &boost-md5sum;
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| 56 | </para>
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[47969a6] | 57 | </listitem>
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| 58 | <listitem>
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[355495ce] | 59 | <para>
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| 60 | Download size: &boost-size;
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| 61 | </para>
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[47969a6] | 62 | </listitem>
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| 63 | <listitem>
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[355495ce] | 64 | <para>
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| 65 | Estimated disk space required: &boost-buildsize;
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| 66 | </para>
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[47969a6] | 67 | </listitem>
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| 68 | <listitem>
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[355495ce] | 69 | <para>
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| 70 | Estimated build time: &boost-time;
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| 71 | </para>
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[47969a6] | 72 | </listitem>
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| 73 | </itemizedlist>
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| 74 |
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[355495ce] | 75 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Boost Dependencies</bridgehead>
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[47969a6] | 76 |
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[d89ea78] | 77 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 78 | <para role="recommended">
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| 79 | <xref linkend="which"/>
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| 80 | </para>
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| 81 |
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[47969a6] | 82 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[f7fbe1f7] | 83 | <para role="optional">
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[31b8fd26] | 84 | <xref linkend="icu"/>,
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[60ddbaf] | 85 | <xref linkend="python2"/>, and
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[31b8fd26] | 86 | <ulink url="https://www.open-mpi.org/">Open MPI</ulink>
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[47969a6] | 87 | </para>
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| 88 |
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| 89 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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[355495ce] | 90 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/boost"/>
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| 91 | </para>
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[47969a6] | 92 | </sect2>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 95 | <title>Installation of Boost</title>
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[b65f260d] | 96 | <!--
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[1015ec3] | 97 | <para>
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[c2057016] | 98 | First, fix a bug with the header files path, when Python3 is used:
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[1015ec3] | 99 | </para>
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| 100 |
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[a88ee2e] | 101 | <screen><userinput>sed -e '/using python/ s@;@: /usr/include/python${PYTHON_VERSION/3*/${PYTHON_VERSION}m} ;@' \
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[c2057016] | 102 | -i bootstrap.sh</userinput></screen>
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[b65f260d] | 103 | -->
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[355495ce] | 104 | <para>
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| 105 | Install <application>Boost</application> by running the following
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[a7f550d8] | 106 | commands:
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[355495ce] | 107 | </para>
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[47969a6] | 108 |
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[128b5380] | 109 |
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[88499366] | 110 | <screen><userinput>./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr &&
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[a7f550d8] | 111 | ./b2 stage threading=multi link=shared</userinput></screen>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <para>
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[40cc482] | 114 | To run the Boost.Build's regression test, <xref linkend="python2"/>
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| 115 | is required.
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[4801ff50] | 116 | Run the tests with: issue <command>pushd tools/build/test;
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[b65f260d] | 117 | python test_all.py; popd</command>.
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| 118 | All 150 tests should pass.
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[684ab13] | 119 | </para>
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| 120 |
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| 121 | <para>
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| 122 | To run every library's regression tests, issue <command>pushd status;
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[40cc482] | 123 | ../b2; popd</command>. A few tests may fail. They take a very long time
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| 124 | (over 119 SBU at -j4) and use a very large amount of disk space
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| 125 | (46 GB). You should use the <parameter>-jN</parameter> switch to
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[684ab13] | 126 | speed them up.
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[a7f550d8] | 127 | </para>
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| 128 |
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| 129 | <para>
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| 130 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 131 | </para>
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| 132 |
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[4adf827] | 133 | <!-- dev note: ./b2 - -prefix=<DESTDIR>/usr install threading=multi link=shared -->
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| 134 |
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[40cc482] | 135 | <screen role="root"><userinput>./b2 install threading=multi link=shared &&
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| 136 | ln -svf detail/sha1.hpp /usr/include/boost/uuid/sha1.hpp</userinput></screen>
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[47969a6] | 137 |
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| 138 | </sect2>
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[54bed77b] | 139 |
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[47969a6] | 140 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 141 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 142 |
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[355495ce] | 143 | <para>
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| 144 | <parameter>threading=multi</parameter>: This parameter ensures that
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| 145 | <application>Boost</application> is built with multithreading support.
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| 146 | </para>
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| 147 |
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| 148 | <para>
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[155d1f80] | 149 | <parameter>link=shared</parameter>: This parameter ensures that only
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| 150 | shared libraries are created, except for libboost_exception and
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| 151 | libboost_test_exec_monitor which are created as static. Most people
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[154b62f8] | 152 | will not need the static libraries, and most programs using
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[ea0c1c2] | 153 | <application>Boost</application> only use the headers. Omit
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[155d1f80] | 154 | this parameter if you do need static libraries.
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| 155 | </para>
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| 156 |
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[40cc482] | 157 | <para>
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| 158 | <parameter>ln -svf detail/sha1.hpp ...</parameter>: The
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| 159 | <filename>uuid/sha1.hpp</filename> used to be a regular header, but by
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| 160 | boost_1_66_0 it had been changed to load the similar
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| 161 | <filename>detail/sha1.hpp</filename> header, with a message that it had
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| 162 | been deprecated. It has now been removed, but not every package which uses
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| 163 | it has been changed. An example is one of the libraries downloaded as a
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| 164 | git version by libreoffice. The symlink enables this and similar packages
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| 165 | to build.
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| 166 | </para>
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| 167 |
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[155d1f80] | 168 | <para>
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| 169 | <option>-jN</option>: This switch may be added to the
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| 170 | <command>b2</command> command lines, to run up to N processes in
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| 171 | parallel.
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[355495ce] | 172 | </para>
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[47969a6] | 173 |
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[1015ec3] | 174 | <para>
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[88499366] | 175 | <option>--with-python=python3</option>: Add this switch to the <command>
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| 176 | bootstrap</command> command, if you want Boost
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[b6659065] | 177 | to use Python3 instead of Python2. Using Python3 is known to cause the
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[4199730] | 178 | installation to fail on some systems.
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[1015ec3] | 179 | </para>
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| 180 |
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[47969a6] | 181 | </sect2>
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[54bed77b] | 182 |
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[47969a6] | 183 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 184 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 185 |
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| 186 | <segmentedlist>
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[c3c56b2] | 187 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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[47969a6] | 188 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 189 | <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
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| 190 |
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| 191 | <seglistitem>
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[c3c56b2] | 192 | <seg>
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| 193 | None
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| 194 | </seg>
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[355495ce] | 195 | <seg>
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[31b8fd26] | 196 | libboost_atomic.so, libboost_chrono.a, libboost_chrono.so,
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| 197 | libboost_container.so, libboost_context.so, libboost_coroutine.so,
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[88499366] | 198 | libboost_date_time.so, libboost_exception.a, libboost-fiber.so,
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| 199 | libboost_filesystem.so,
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[31b8fd26] | 200 | libboost_graph.so, libboost_iostreams.so, libboost_locale.so,
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| 201 | libboost_log_setup.so, libboost_log.so, libboost_math_c99.so,
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| 202 | libboost_math_c99f.so, libboost_math_c99l.so, libboost_math_tr1.so,
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| 203 | libboost_math_tr1f.so, libboost_math_tr1l.so,
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| 204 | libboost_prg_exec_monitor.so, libboost_program_options.so,
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[40cc482] | 205 | libboost_python27.so or libboost_python3.so, libboost_random.so,
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[514797f] | 206 | libboost_regex.so, libboost_serialization.so, libboost_signals.so,
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[fa30d84] | 207 | libboost_stacktrace_addr2line.so, libboost_stacktrace_basic.so,
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| 208 | libboost_stacktrace_noop.so,
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[514797f] | 209 | libboost_system.a, libboost_system.so, libboost_test_exec_monitor.a,
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| 210 | libboost_thread.so, libboost_timer.a, libboost_timer.so,
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[40cc482] | 211 | libboost_type_erasure.so,
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[fa30d84] | 212 | libboost_unit_test_framework.so,
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[31b8fd26] | 213 | libboost_wave.so, and libboost_wserialization.so
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[355495ce] | 214 | </seg>
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| 215 | <seg>
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| 216 | /usr/include/boost
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| 217 | </seg>
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[47969a6] | 218 | </seglistitem>
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| 219 | </segmentedlist>
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[355495ce] | 220 |
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[47969a6] | 221 | </sect2>
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| 222 |
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| 223 | </sect1>
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