[Bioc-devel] Boost packaged on rforge

[Steffen Neumann]

Hi Vincent,

BH currently works the way that the package sources 
(and that includes BH/inst/include/boost/*) are 
automagically created by bcp'ing the dependencies 
of *some* R packages (e.g. bigmemory on rforge).

John and Dirk et al said that people can ask 
for additional dependencies on the tracker [1].

If you want to port your package to BH 
and figure out the required dependencies,
check out svn://r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/boostheaders
and edit boostheaders/CreateBoost.R (see how I munged 
that file on [2] ...)

Then iterate over 

	cd boostheaders
	rm -rf pkg/BH  
	R --vanilla <CreateBoost.R
	R CMD INSTALL pkg/BH
	R CMD INSTALL /your/package/

until success. Unfortunately with boost, it might not 
be as straightforward as adding " graph ",
that's why I have that insane "find /my/package -exec bcp -scan"
in my hacked [2]. Also note that in a hacked version of 
CreateBoost.R it is possible to switch between boost versions.

Yours,
Steffen


[1] https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?atid=5310&group_id=1469&func=browse
[2] https://github.com/sneumann/boostheaders/blob/master/CreateBoost.R








On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 22:47 -0400, Vincent Carey wrote:
> are the headers for the "boost graph library" purposely excluded?  i
> do not see them in BH/include
> 
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Steffen Neumann
> <sneumann at ipb-halle.de> wrote:
>         Hi BioC world,
>         
>         I'd like to draw the attention to the boostheaders (or BH)
>         package on rforge.org [1], which packages the boost headers
>         so that other packages can link/include them.
>         
>         I know a few packages on BioC are using -- and embedding --
>         boost.
>         There have also been some discussion a long time ago [2]
>         
>         This might be a chance to get a single package that contains
>         boost ?
>         
>         Yours,
>         Steffen
>         
>         [1] http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/boostheaders/
>         [2]
>         https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2009-February/001808.html
>         
>         
>         
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Weinberg 3                   http://msbi.bic-gh.de
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                                  +49 (0) 345 5582 - 0
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