[Rivet] boost.m4 BOOST_FIND_LIB

[Andy Buckley]

Yeah, a branch for now, please. I'm desperate to get 2.0.0 out asap, and
that means minimising any possible build system etc. headaches! After
that we can start being more demanding/adventurous.

Andy


On 12/07/13 17:51, James Monk wrote:
> 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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>>
>> -- 
>> Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
>> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Edinburgh / PH Dept, CERN
> 
> 


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Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Edinburgh / PH Dept, CERN