[Rivet] [Rivet-svn] r2008 - bootstrap

[Andy Buckley]

Hendrik Hoeth wrote:
> Thus spake blackhole at projects.hepforge.org (blackhole at projects.hepforge.org):
> 
>> Log:
>> Version updates
>>
>> Modified:
>>    bootstrap/rivet-bootstrap
>>
>> [...]
>> -parser.add_option("--boost-version", default="1_38_0", dest="BOOST_VERSION", 
>> +parser.add_option("--boost-version", default="1_40_0", dest="BOOST_VERSION", 
>> [...]
> 
> The 1.40.0 release of boost doesn't come with a configure script
> anymore. Now it's time to run
> 
> ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=$PREFIX
> ./bjam
> ./bjam install
> 
> No, the -j option for bjam doesn't work reliably here. And no, I don't
> know why they are doing this to mankind. But there _is_ something good
> about this release. They didn't screw up the paths in the include
> directory during the installation.

Yep, I noticed this during the next bunch of testing. To spare myself 
(and others, via bugs) unnecessary pain, the bootstrap script now just 
copies the boost header directory into place. This also saves on that 
huge build time for bits of Boost that we don't use ;)

Andy

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