Python for system administrators (developerWorks)

Posted Sep 10, 2007 1:44 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: Python for system administrators (developerWorks) by madscientist
Parent article: Python for system administrators (developerWorks)

I agree 100%, trying to build Boost is utter torture. I tried to write robust deploy scripts for vertical apps that link against Boost and mostly failed.

Happily, though, everything my apps needed was header-only. With only minor tweaks, I deployed the apps without actually building Boost!

So, definitely try #including the Boost files you're interested in, but don't link against any Boost libs. There's a very good chance that this will work.

Regexes are a notable exception -- you definitely need to build the libraries for those.

Python for system administrators (developerWorks)

Posted Sep 19, 2007 20:11 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I managed it. It took a couple of hundred lines of patches just to
reliably set the CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and install prefix.

Compared to autoconf or cmake, that's crazy.