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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Richard A Burton wrote:
> 2009/9/28 Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>
>
> > I volunteer to do this and clean up the entire boost mess during the
> > next two weeks if there are no objections.
>
> One question - How version specific are the boost headers? If a
> particular version of headers are included will that prevent it being
> compiled on a system with a different level installed. I guess on
> windows this isn't likely to be a problem because chances are people
> won't have it installed, but on linux people may well have (or may
> want to) just install their distro's libboost-dev package which
> probably won't be the same level as the headers included with kicad.
>
> Richard.

I would hope I can make the <kicad>/include/boost directory have higher 
search priority than the system one.

If that can be achieved, then the compiler will not need to look for the 
system installed headers, and won't.

Dick