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Re: Removal of download_boost.cmake.

 

It will get removed when download_boost.cmake is removed.  I just need
an answer on whether or not the 1.54 boost on ubuntu 14.04 will work or not.

On 12/14/2015 1:35 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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