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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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[355495ce] | 7 | <!ENTITY boost-download-http "&sourceforge-repo;/boost/boost_&boost-dl-version;.tar.bz2">
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[47969a6] | 8 | <!ENTITY boost-download-ftp " ">
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[83f6c770] | 9 | <!ENTITY boost-md5sum "65a840e1a0b13a558ff19eeb2c4f0cbe">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY boost-size "74 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY boost-buildsize "899 MB (with Boost.Build's regression test)">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY boost-time "5.5 SBU (with Boost.Build's regression test)">
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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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[a3394a71] | 39 | &lfs78_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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| 77 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[f7fbe1f7] | 78 | <para role="optional">
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[ac38e9dc] | 79 | <xref linkend="icu"/>,
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[83f6c770] | 80 | <xref linkend="python2"/> or <xref linkend="python3"/>, and
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| 81 | <ulink url="https://www.open-mpi.org/">Open MPI</ulink>
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[47969a6] | 82 | </para>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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[355495ce] | 85 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/boost"/>
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| 86 | </para>
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[47969a6] | 87 | </sect2>
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| 88 |
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| 89 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 90 | <title>Installation of Boost</title>
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| 91 |
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[83f6c770] | 92 | <para>
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[a6a9fc5] | 93 | First, fix a bug with the header files path, when Python3 is used:
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[83f6c770] | 94 | </para>
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| 95 |
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[e695ffa8] | 96 | <screen><userinput>sed -e '/using python/ s@;@: /usr/include/python${PYTHON_VERSION/3*/${PYTHON_VERSION}m} ;@' \
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[94b4def9] | 97 | -i bootstrap.sh</userinput></screen>
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[83f6c770] | 98 |
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[355495ce] | 99 | <para>
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| 100 | Install <application>Boost</application> by running the following
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[a7f550d8] | 101 | commands:
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[355495ce] | 102 | </para>
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[47969a6] | 103 |
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[83f6c770] | 104 | <screen><userinput>sed -e '1 i#ifndef Q_MOC_RUN' \
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| 105 | -e '$ a#endif' \
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| 106 | -i boost/type_traits/detail/has_binary_operator.hpp &&
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| 107 |
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| 108 | ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr &&
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[a7f550d8] | 109 | ./b2 stage threading=multi link=shared</userinput></screen>
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| 110 |
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| 111 | <para>
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[ac38e9dc] | 112 | To run the Boost.Build's regression test (<xref linkend="python2"/>
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| 113 | required), issue <command>pushd tools/build/test; python test_all.py;
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[83f6c770] | 114 | popd</command>. One test out of 130 fails.
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[ac38e9dc] | 115 | </para>
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| 116 |
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| 117 | <para>
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[83f6c770] | 118 | To run every library's regression tests, issue <command>pushd status;
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| 119 | ../b2; popd</command>. A few tests may fail. They take very long (over
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| 120 | 120/50 SBU, one/four cores) and use a very large disk space (up to
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| 121 | 40 GB). You can use the <parameter>-jN</parameter> switch to
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| 122 | speed them up.
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[a7f550d8] | 123 | </para>
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| 124 |
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| 125 | <para>
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| 126 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 127 | </para>
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| 128 |
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[4adf827] | 129 | <!-- dev note: ./b2 - -prefix=<DESTDIR>/usr install threading=multi link=shared -->
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| 130 |
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[a7f550d8] | 131 | <screen role="root"><userinput>./b2 install threading=multi link=shared</userinput></screen>
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[47969a6] | 132 |
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| 133 | </sect2>
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[54bed77b] | 134 |
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[47969a6] | 135 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 136 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 137 |
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[83f6c770] | 138 | <para>
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| 139 | <command>sed ... has_binary_operator.hpp</command>: This command
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| 140 | fixes a header to overcome a problem with Qt's moc command. It
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| 141 | is necessary for building some KDE packages.
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| 142 | </para>
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| 143 |
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[355495ce] | 144 | <para>
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| 145 | <parameter>threading=multi</parameter>: This parameter ensures that
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| 146 | <application>Boost</application> is built with multithreading support.
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| 147 | </para>
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| 148 |
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| 149 | <para>
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[ac38e9dc] | 150 | <parameter>link=shared</parameter>: This parameter ensures that only
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| 151 | shared libraries are created, except for libboost_exception and
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| 152 | libboost_test_exec_monitor which are created as static. Most people
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[83f6c770] | 153 | will not need the static libraries. Indeed most programs using
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[ac38e9dc] | 154 | <application>Boost</application> only use the headers. Omit
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| 155 | this parameter if you do need static libraries.
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| 156 | </para>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <para>
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[83f6c770] | 159 | <option>-jN</option>: This switch may be added to the
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| 160 | <command>b2</command> command lines, to run up to N processes in
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| 161 | parallel.
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| 162 | </para>
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| 163 |
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| 164 | <para>
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| 165 | <option>--with-python=python3</option>: Add this switch if you want Boost
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| 166 | to use Python3 instead of Python2.
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[355495ce] | 167 | </para>
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[47969a6] | 168 |
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| 169 | </sect2>
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[54bed77b] | 170 |
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[47969a6] | 171 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 172 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 173 |
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| 174 | <segmentedlist>
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[c3c56b2] | 175 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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[47969a6] | 176 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 177 | <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
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| 178 |
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| 179 | <seglistitem>
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[c3c56b2] | 180 | <seg>
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| 181 | None
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| 182 | </seg>
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[355495ce] | 183 | <seg>
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[83f6c770] | 184 | libboost_atomic.so,
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| 185 | libboost_chrono.a,
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| 186 | libboost_chrono.so,
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| 187 | libboost_container.so,
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| 188 | libboost_context.so,
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| 189 | libboost_coroutine.so,
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| 190 | libboost_date_time.so,
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| 191 | libboost_exception.a,
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| 192 | libboost_filesystem.so,
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| 193 | libboost_graph.so,
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| 194 | libboost_iostreams.so,
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| 195 | libboost_locale.so,
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| 196 | libboost_log_setup.so,
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| 197 | libboost_log.so,
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| 198 | libboost_math_c99.so,
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| 199 | libboost_math_c99f.so,
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| 200 | libboost_math_c99l.so,
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| 201 | libboost_math_tr1.so,
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| 202 | libboost_math_tr1f.so,
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| 203 | libboost_math_tr1l.so,
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| 204 | libboost_prg_exec_monitor.so,
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| 205 | libboost_program_options.so,
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| 206 | libboost_python.so,
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| 207 | libboost_python3.so,
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| 208 | libboost_random.so,
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| 209 | libboost_regex.so,
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| 210 | libboost_serialization.so,
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| 211 | libboost_signals.so,
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| 212 | libboost_system.a,
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| 213 | libboost_system.so,
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| 214 | libboost_test_exec_monitor.a,
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| 215 | libboost_thread.so,
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| 216 | libboost_timer.a,
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| 217 | libboost_timer.so,
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| 218 | libboost_type_erasure.so,
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| 219 | libboost_unit_test_framework.so,
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| 220 | libboost_wave.so,
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[ac38e9dc] | 221 | and libboost_wserialization.so
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[355495ce] | 222 | </seg>
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| 223 | <seg>
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| 224 | /usr/include/boost
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| 225 | </seg>
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[47969a6] | 226 | </seglistitem>
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| 227 | </segmentedlist>
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[355495ce] | 228 |
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[47969a6] | 229 | </sect2>
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| 230 |
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| 231 | </sect1>
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