[Rivet] boost.m4 BOOST_FIND_LIB

[James Monk]

Great thanks - that worked.

Obviously this introduces a dependency on the iostreams library, where before we only depended on the headers.  Is this going to be a problem?  Not every system has the binaries compiled for boost, although most will.  I guess I can just push this back into the repository in a new branch called gzip for now?... (starting to get the hang of this hg stuff!)

cheers,

James

On 11 Jul 2013, at 23:08, Andy Buckley wrote:

> Hi James,
> 
> Have a look at the docs here:
> https://github.com/tsuna/boost.m4/
> 
> I think the pre-packaged way to do it is to call BOOST_IOSTREAMS.
> 
> Feel free to update to the latest version of that boost.m4 if you like.
> The current version is a few months old and contains some patches by me
> which then got pulled into that Github repo.
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> On 11/07/13 19:47, James Monk wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I'm trying to add reading of gzipped HepMC files to Rivet (together with the event filtering, I think this would improve the io performance enough that storing events becomes worthwhile).  For this, I need to link against libboost_iostreams.[so, dylib].  There's a m4 macro in boost.m4 of 
>> 
>> 	BOOST_FIND_LIB([iostreams])
>> 
>> which you'd imagine would do the job, but seems to look for an empty filename.  There's not much documentation on that - does anyone know if/how it works?  Or an alternative neat way of finding a particular boost library?.. 
>> 
>> cheers,
>> 
>> James
>> 
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