From: Dan Nuffer (dnuffer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-02-16 17:37:11
Jens Maurer wrote:
> I'd like to add the boost.spec file to the CVS as a first step towards
> a build system, if it's sufficiently generic.
>
Sounds good. I'll send it to you once I get a semi-final version.
>
> I believe the library names should rather be libboost_pycpp.so
> and libboost_regex++.so. We've been rather stringent with putting
> everything in a namespace.
>
I agree. Dave, John, could you fix the makefiles to create the
appropriate library names?
For now I'll simply rename them.
> You may want to add compile libs/random/random_device.cpp, which is a
> boost random number library front-end for /dev/urandom. Particularly
> helpful on Linux.
>
Unfortunately this doesn't compile because of gcc's lack of a <limits>
header. :-(
Do you know a workaround? Maybe I could throw a limits into the boost/
directory?
--Dan Nuffer