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Re: Removal of download_boost.cmake.

 

Hi folks,

We should probably remove the

"""WARNING: You decided to skip building boost library.

  KiCad developers strongly advise you to build the bundled boost library,
as
  it is known to work with KiCad.

  Other versions may contain bugs that may result in KiCad errors."""

warning soon, right?

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> The only boost patch that is not mingw or osx specific is
> boost_cstdint.patch and I'm not sure this patch makes any difference.
> There is one way to find out.  Build kicad with stock boost on 14.04 and
> see there are any issues.  Would someone please test this since there
> seems to be a lot of ubuntu 14.04 users out there?
>
>
> On 12/14/2015 9:35 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> > Are you sure this is a good idea? We do patch boost 1.54 anyway, or do
> > you remember what the consequences was and we can just ignore them if
> > of on ubuntu 14.04 (LTS)?
> >
> > 2015-12-14 14:36 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> I'll use 1.54 until the next Ubuntu LTS is released then I'll bump it to
> >> 1.55 which is the current Debian stable version.
> >>
> >> On 12/13/2015 7:36 PM, Mark Roszko wrote:
> >>> Debian never had 1.54 in stable.. It has 1.55 now(jessie) and the last
> release
> >>> was 1.49 (wheezy).
> >>>
> >>> Debian had 1.54 as "unstable" in 2013, it never shipped as stable.
> >>>
> >>> But yes, ubuntu 14 has 1.54.
> >>>
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