For the record, its called boost_cropped because its only a relatively small part of boost that is needed by Sage.
The upstream boost tarball is ~200MB and a full install can be over 10 GB if all libraries are built. Its quite a big project by itself. On Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 9:58:30 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote: > On Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 11:20:03 AM UTC-5 Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > the boost_cropped is a header-only thing. > > > What this means, as I learned by inspecting the spkg closely, is that the > spkg tarball simply contains the include/boost directory which is created > when you install boost. Why that package is named boost_cropped instead of > boost_headers is beyond me. > > But the main point here is that the current boost spkg contains a version > of boost which appears not to be compatible with clang 17.0.0. So > building sagelib with Sage's boost package fails if you are using clang > 17.0.0. It is pretty trivial to upgrade the boost_cropped package to the > current version of boost. So that would be the obvious solution to this > problem. > > - Marc > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-release/0684585b-d978-4635-9098-801728573094n%40googlegroups.com.
