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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

FYI.  Once boost build is removed, expect a flood of issues from people
who have been building from source who have no clue that they are
downloading and building boost from source.  We are going to have to
undo the years of expecting users to build kicad from source and that is
not going to happen over night.

On 12/10/2015 1:23 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> It's not quite that easy.  One of two things has to happen first.
> Either libcurl has to replace avhttp or I have to write a temporary
> FindAvhttp.cmake file until libcurl has been fully tested.  By fully
> tested I mean packaged and installed on systems not built and installed
> from source.  I would rather not write FindAvhttp.cmake.  I think the
> libcurl testing is getting close to complete.  Once that is done, I will
> remove the boost build code and set the minimum boost version to 1.55.
> 
> On 12/10/2015 12:26 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>> Lets just remove the self built boost now :)
>>
>> 2015-12-10 18:16 GMT+01:00 Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Wayne,
>>>
>>> The issue he has with kicad built boost is because of the erroneous
>>> removal of the BOOST_CFLAG -fpic with the fpic patch. Cmake has no way
>>> of passing fpic to boost otherwise because boost ends up using its own
>>> build engine where the parameters are passed via command line.
>>>
>>> Unless that is fixed, the self building boost is useless.
>>>
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