[Nix-dev] Boost libraries

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Peter Simons wrote:

>  | commit 9db32c5cf79c749d39a8fd3317ae6cc03bebde7c
>  | Author: eelco <eelco at 70bd8c7a-acb8-0310-9f0d-9cc1c95dcdbb>
>  | Date:   Fri Apr 3 23:54:20 2009 +0000
>  |
>  | * Boost: cut the installed size from 257 MB (!!!) to 58 MB. It
>  |   required all that space because it was building static/shared,
>  |   single-thread/multi-threaded, and debug/production versions of the
>  |   libraries - as well as every combination of those. Now we build
>  |   only the shared, multi-threaded, production version, which needs
>  |   only 8 MB. [...]
> 
> this change breaks my installation. I do need some of the variants that
> were deleted from the expression, i.e. the variants for single-threaded
> and debug builds. Arguably, it would be nice if the Boost expression
> would offer more granularity to allow depending on specific libraries in
> specific variants, but until we have that, removing arbitrary libraries
> from the installation doesn't sound like a good idea.

There is now a variant that builds all the variants (and it's the default for
nix-env -i boost).

-- 
Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/