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Hi, Wayne!

On 2016-01-03 21:36, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I just committed removing the Boost library dependency (yeah!!!!) build
> so this will impact anyone who is still using it.  You will now have to
> either install Boost 1.54 or later on your system or build Boost from
> source.  All of the known caveats apply when building Boost from source.

Looks good here - just built successfully against boost 1.60.0.

Is there any update yet in the documentation about your change?
Some distro-packagers might miss the now external dependency
to boost. (Little patch attached.)

Is
	cmake ... -DKICAD_SKIP_BOOST=ON 
now the default?
	Documentation/development/compiling.md
might need to get updated as well...

Regards,

CKO


PS: I am new on this list and try to catch up a bit before I am hopefully
able to implement some features to migrate my libraries + design data from
Mentor PADS to Kicad. I am on Arch Linux 64bit building from github source.
Let me know how I can help efficiently.

diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index c7c345c..83ea306 100644
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -93,8 +93,6 @@ wxWidgets            >= 3.0.0          http://www.wxwidgets.org/
 CMake                >= 2.8.4          http://www.cmake.org/
 
 Boost C++ Libraries: >= 1.54           http://www.boost.org/
-    files used by kicad are autmatically downloaded and patched if needed
-    from boost site.
 
 OpenGL               >= 2.1
   Linux:   Mesa 3D Graphics Library    http://www.mesa3d.org/
@@ -110,7 +108,7 @@ libcurl                                http://curl.haxx.se/
 
 OpenMP               (optional)        http://openmp.org/
 
-GLM                  >= 9.5.4          http://glm.g-truc.net/
+GLM                  >= 0.9.5.4        http://glm.g-truc.net/
 
 pkg-config                             http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/
 
@@ -146,7 +144,7 @@ build directory.
 Important parameters to cmake
 -----------------------------
 
-See Documentation/compiling/build-config.txt for a list of all CMake options
+See Documentation/development/compiling.md for a list of all CMake options
 available when compiling KiCad.
 
 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=<buildtype>