Bundling?!

Petr Machata pmachata at redhat.com
Mon Feb 20 09:06:43 UTC 2012


Ralf Ertzinger <fedora at camperquake.de> writes:

> Hi.
>
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:26:20 +0100, Petr Machata wrote
>
>> Please don't do this.
>> 
>> The main reason being that header code from bundled boost is in
>> general not binary compatible with the native code from system
>> boost.  It might maybe happen to work, but is likely to fail in
>> obscure and hard to debug ways if the version of bundled boost
>> differs from system boost.
>
> If I understand the OP right then ASL comes with it's own build
> system, and it is the build system that uses the bundled boost
> libraries. The ASL itself (the binaries that end up in the RPM)
> can be built against the system boost.

Ah, that shouldn't be a problem I guess.

Thanks,
PM


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