source: general/genlib/boost.xml@ a3394a71

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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>

    &lfs78_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">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="icu"/>,
      <xref linkend="python2"/> and
      <ulink url="http://www.open-mpi.org/">OpenMPI</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>
      Install <application>Boost</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./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"/>
      required), issue <command>pushd tools/build/test; python test_all.py;
      popd</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      To run regression tests for every library, issue <command>pushd status;
      ../b2; popd</command>. A few tests may fail. They take a long time
      (more than 120 SBU) and use up to 40 GB of disk space. You can use the
      <parameter>-jN</parameter> parameter 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>
      <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 since 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 parameter may be added to the
       <command>b2</command> command lines so it can use up to N
       processes in parallel.
    </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.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_random.so,
          libboost_regex.so, libboost_serialization.so, libboost_signals.so,
          libboost_system.so, libboost_test_exec_monitor.a, libboost_thread.so,
          libboost_timer.so, libboost_unit_test_framework.so, libboost_wave.so,
          and libboost_wserialization.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/boost
        </seg>
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