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    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
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  <title>Boost-&boost-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="boost">
    <primary sortas="a-Boost">Boost</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Boost</title>

    <para>
      <application>Boost</application> 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.
    </para>

    &lfs7a_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&boost-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&boost-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &boost-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &boost-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &boost-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &boost-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Boost Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="which"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="icu"/>,
      <xref linkend="python2"/> or <xref linkend="python3"/>, and
      <ulink url="https://www.open-mpi.org/">Open MPI</ulink>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/boost"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Boost</title>

    <para>
      First, fix a bug with the header files path, when Python3 is used:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -e '/using python/ s@;@: /usr/include/python${PYTHON_VERSION/3*/${PYTHON_VERSION}m} ;@' \
    -i bootstrap.sh</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>Boost</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>


<screen><userinput>sed -e '1 i#ifndef Q_MOC_RUN' \
    -e '$ a#endif'            \
    -i boost/type_traits/detail/has_binary_operator.hpp &amp;&amp;

./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
./b2 stage threading=multi link=shared</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To run the Boost.Build's regression test (<xref linkend="python2"/>
      is required), issue <command>pushd tools/build/test; python test_all.py;
      popd</command>. All 131 tests should pass.
    </para>

    <para>
      To run every library's regression tests, issue <command>pushd status;
      ../b2; popd</command>.  A few tests may fail. They take very long (over
      120 SBU at -j1, 50 SBU at -j4) and use a very large amount of disk space 
      (up to 40 GB). You can use the <parameter>-jN</parameter> switch to
      speed them up.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<!-- dev note: ./b2 - -prefix=<DESTDIR>/usr install threading=multi link=shared -->

<screen role="root"><userinput>./b2 install threading=multi link=shared</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>sed ... has_binary_operator.hpp</command>: This command
      fixes a header to overcome a problem with Qt's moc command.  It
      is necessary for building some KDE packages.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>threading=multi</parameter>: This parameter ensures that
      <application>Boost</application> is built with multithreading support.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>link=shared</parameter>: 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. Indeed most programs using
      <application>Boost</application> only use the headers. Omit
      this parameter if you do need static libraries.
    </para>

    <para>
       <option>-jN</option>: This switch may be added to the
       <command>b2</command> command lines, to run up to N processes in
       parallel.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--with-python=python3</option>: Add this switch if you want Boost
      to use Python3 instead of Python2.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libboost_atomic.so, libboost_chrono.a, libboost_chrono.so,
          libboost_container.so, libboost_context.so, libboost_coroutine.so,
          libboost_date_time.so, libboost_exception.a, libboost_filesystem.so,
          libboost_graph.so, libboost_iostreams.so, libboost_locale.so,
          libboost_log_setup.so, libboost_log.so, libboost_math_c99.so,
          libboost_math_c99f.so, libboost_math_c99l.so, libboost_math_tr1.so,
          libboost_math_tr1f.so, libboost_math_tr1l.so,
          libboost_prg_exec_monitor.so, libboost_program_options.so,
          libboost_python.so, libboost_python3.so, libboost_random.so,
          libboost_regex.so, libboost_serialization.so, libboost_signals.so,
          libboost_system.a, libboost_system.so, libboost_test_exec_monitor.a,
          libboost_thread.so, libboost_timer.a, libboost_timer.so,
          libboost_type_erasure.so, libboost_unit_test_framework.so,
          libboost_wave.so, and libboost_wserialization.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/boost
        </seg>
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  </sect2>

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