Hi, On 20/05/15 15:06, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> long time ago I introduced a package boostHeaders, that only installed the > boost headers without building any lib. The purpose of that package was to > avoid the heavy build load of boost. > > For what I remember, building all boost involved bjam taking 2GB of RAM, > and heavy task for g++. This is a huge task for some ARM computers. Hm, isn't building packages like gcc also a problem on such constrained systems? I'd prefer not to have multiple Boost packages again. Boost's build script does have a "--with-libraries" flag, maybe we can expose that as a function argument? Then you could say something like boost.override { libraries = [ ]; } -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev