[Nix-dev] boostHeaders disappeared

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 04:08:08PM +0200, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 20/05/15 15:06, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> 
> > long time ago I introduced a package boostHeaders, that only installed the
> > boost headers without building any lib. The purpose of that package was to
> > avoid the heavy build load of boost.
> > 
> > For what I remember, building all boost involved bjam taking 2GB of RAM,
> > and heavy task for g++. This is a huge task for some ARM computers.
> 
> Hm, isn't building packages like gcc also a problem on such constrained systems?
> 
> I'd prefer not to have multiple Boost packages again. Boost's build script does
> have a "--with-libraries" flag, maybe we can expose that as a function argument?
> Then you could say something like
> 
>   boost.override { libraries = [ ]; }

That would be perfect. I will try if it works.

Thank you!

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