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Hi All,
   just trying to catch up on all the new development and had some  
comments on sorting out the boost libraries for the latest dolfin-dev  
on my mac-osx 10.4.11 machine.

I think I've sorted most of this out but the pkggeneratory boost.py  
still seems to be fragile.  some basic problems on macosx are
	A) the most available version of boost on fink is 1.33 which I  
believe is out of date (what version is the development libraries  
using?)
	B) I've rebuilt boost (1.38 and 1.39) by hand just fine, but in  
general, there are a lot of possible variations on the naming of  
boost libraries (e.g. the default naming conventions for the  
libraries can include version and  compiler information such as  
libboost_program_options-xgcc40-mt.dylib).  It would be useful if   
the boost package generators were a bit more thorough in determining  
how to call things (maybe a bit of glob would help).  Alternatively,   
since the new development libraries seem to be more dependent on  
compiled boost libraries,  a brief discussion of dependencies for  
boost on the web-site would be useful.  I also think Dorsal will need  
to be updated for the development versions.
	C) at least in boost 1.38 and 1.39,  libboost_filesystem* references  
libboost_system* and I think a -lboost_system* needs to be added to  
boost_filesystem.pc

at any rate,  I seem to now have a a full set of boost libraries and  
pkgconfig files so that I can do a complete local build of dolfin.

Thanks as always
cheers
marc






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Marc Spiegelman
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Dept. of Applied Physics/Applied Math
Columbia University
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