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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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[ac38e9dc] | 9 | <!ENTITY boost-md5sum "b8839650e61e9c1c0a89f371dd475546">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY boost-size "68 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY boost-buildsize "884 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY boost-time "3.9 SBU">
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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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[ac38e9dc] | 39 | &lfs77_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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| 80 | <xref linkend="python2"/> and
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| 81 | <ulink url="http://www.open-mpi.org/">OpenMPI</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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[355495ce] | 92 | <para>
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| 93 | Install <application>Boost</application> by running the following
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[a7f550d8] | 94 | commands:
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[355495ce] | 95 | </para>
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[47969a6] | 96 |
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[4adf827] | 97 | <screen><userinput>./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr &&
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[a7f550d8] | 98 | ./b2 stage threading=multi link=shared</userinput></screen>
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| 99 |
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| 100 | <para>
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[ac38e9dc] | 101 | To run the Boost.Build's regression test (<xref linkend="python2"/>
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| 102 | required), issue <command>pushd tools/build/test; python test_all.py;
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| 103 | popd</command>.
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| 104 | </para>
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| 105 |
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| 106 | <para>
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| 107 | To run regression tests for every library, issue <command>pushd status;
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| 108 | ../b2; popd</command>. A few tests may fail. They take a long time
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| 109 | (more than 120 SBU) and use up to 40 GB of disk space. You can use the
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| 110 | <parameter>-jN</parameter> parameter to speed them up.
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[a7f550d8] | 111 | </para>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <para>
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| 114 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 115 | </para>
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| 116 |
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[4adf827] | 117 | <!-- dev note: ./b2 - -prefix=<DESTDIR>/usr install threading=multi link=shared -->
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| 118 |
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[a7f550d8] | 119 | <screen role="root"><userinput>./b2 install threading=multi link=shared</userinput></screen>
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[47969a6] | 120 |
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| 121 | </sect2>
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[54bed77b] | 122 |
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[47969a6] | 123 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 124 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 125 |
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[355495ce] | 126 | <para>
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| 127 | <parameter>threading=multi</parameter>: This parameter ensures that
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| 128 | <application>Boost</application> is built with multithreading support.
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| 129 | </para>
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| 130 |
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| 131 | <para>
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[ac38e9dc] | 132 | <parameter>link=shared</parameter>: This parameter ensures that only
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| 133 | shared libraries are created, except for libboost_exception and
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| 134 | libboost_test_exec_monitor which are created as static. Most people
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| 135 | will not need the static libraries since most programs using
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| 136 | <application>Boost</application> only use the headers. Omit
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| 137 | this parameter if you do need static libraries.
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| 138 | </para>
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| 139 |
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| 140 | <para>
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| 141 | <option>-jN</option>: This parameter may be added to the
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| 142 | <command>b2</command> command lines so it can use up to N
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| 143 | processes in parallel.
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[355495ce] | 144 | </para>
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[47969a6] | 145 |
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| 146 | </sect2>
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[54bed77b] | 147 |
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[47969a6] | 148 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 149 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 150 |
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| 151 | <segmentedlist>
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[c3c56b2] | 152 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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[47969a6] | 153 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 154 | <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
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| 155 |
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| 156 | <seglistitem>
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[c3c56b2] | 157 | <seg>
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| 158 | None
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| 159 | </seg>
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[355495ce] | 160 | <seg>
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[ac38e9dc] | 161 | libboost_atomic.so, libboost_chrono.so, libboost_container.so,
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| 162 | libboost_context.so, libboost_coroutine.so, libboost_date_time.so,
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| 163 | libboost_exception.a, libboost_filesystem.so, libboost_graph.so,
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| 164 | libboost_iostreams.so, libboost_locale.so, libboost_log_setup.so,
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| 165 | libboost_log.so, libboost_math_c99.so, libboost_math_c99f.so,
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| 166 | libboost_math_c99l.so, libboost_math_tr1.so, libboost_math_tr1f.so,
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| 167 | libboost_math_tr1l.so, libboost_prg_exec_monitor.so,
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| 168 | libboost_program_options.so, libboost_python.so, libboost_random.so,
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| 169 | libboost_regex.so, libboost_serialization.so, libboost_signals.so,
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| 170 | libboost_system.so, libboost_test_exec_monitor.a, libboost_thread.so,
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| 171 | libboost_timer.so, libboost_unit_test_framework.so, libboost_wave.so,
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| 172 | and libboost_wserialization.so
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[355495ce] | 173 | </seg>
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| 174 | <seg>
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| 175 | /usr/include/boost
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| 176 | </seg>
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[47969a6] | 177 | </seglistitem>
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| 178 | </segmentedlist>
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[355495ce] | 179 |
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[47969a6] | 180 | </sect2>
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| 181 |
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| 182 | </sect1>
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