[Rivet] [Rivet-svn] r2008 - bootstrap

Hendrik Hoeth hendrik.hoeth at cern.ch
Wed Nov 4 21:26:15 GMT 2009


Thus spake Andy Buckley (andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk):

> > 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 ;)

Bah. How boring is that? No challenge! Tsssss.

;-)

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about theoretical uncertainties on the top mass)


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