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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/12/2015 10:20 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> But this does not address the issue of KiCad trying to download, patch
> and build boost 1.54 if you just do cmake parth/to/srcdir; make.

The KICAD_SKIP_BOOST option is documented:

http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/kicad-doxygen/ws/Documentation/doxygen/html/md_Documentation_development_compiling.html#boost_opt

I suppose I could add some more information about gcc 5+ failing to
build the default Boost 1.54.

> 
> 2015-10-12 16:16 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>
>> On 10/12/2015 10:07 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>> 2015-10-12 15:29 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>
>>>> On 10/12/2015 8:44 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
>>>>> On 10/11/2015 03:37 PM, Marco Ciampa wrote:
>>>>>> 2) the only mention to this is here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/en/pcbnew.html#_general_remarks
>>>>>
>>>>> There is also: http://kicad-pcb.org/post/known-system-related-issues/
>>>>> Perhaps it could be moved to a permanent page (Help->Known issues or
>>>>> something similar).
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Orson
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I like the idea of moving this to Help->Known Issues.  I would also like
>>>> to see the section on Boost removed.  Building with Boost 1.56+ is
>>>> already addressed in the building KiCad from source in the developers
>>>> documentation which I just committed over the weekend.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Wayne
>>>>
>>>
>>> In which commit was this addressed?
>>
>> r6259, the autobuilder has already updated the developer docs which the
>> new "Building KiCad from Source" can be found here:
>>
>> http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/kicad-doxygen/ws/Documentation/doxygen/html/md_Documentation_development_compiling.html
>>
>>>
>>> Also, I would like to keep the information for reference at least for
>>> some time. Remember that the default has been to use the bundled boost
>>> 1.54, which fails building on stock gcc 5.1 and 5.2 AFIK.
>>>
>>> We could move the known system related issues page under the help menu.
>>>
>>
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