Deprecated!

This repo is no longer involved in building XL since version 2.9. If you want to update boost, you probably want to look at meta-vorne.

boost

This is a streamlined (for our purposes) copy of boost.

Generalized Boost licensing information can be read about here.

How To Upgrade the Boost Library

The following steps can be followed to upgrade to a new version of the Boost library.

From Windows:

• Visit http://www.boost.org/.
• Download desired version (i.e., boost_1_64_0.tar.gz).
• Extract TAR file from GZ file.
• Copy TAR file to H:\src\vm folder to make it accessible to your VM.

From VM:

• Navigate to the Boost repository (i.e., "cd ~/src/boost").
• Create a new branch (i.e., "git checkout -b TA6006").
• Move TAR file to Boost directory (i.e., "mv /vagrant/boost_1_64_0.tar .").
• Rename existing "boost" sub-directory (i.e., "mv boost boost_1_57").
• Extract files from TAR (i.e., "tar -xvf boost_1_64_0.tar").
• Rename new Boost directory to "boost" (i.e., "mv boost_1_64_0/boost boost").
• Delete old Boost directory and TAR file (i.e., "rm -rf boost_1_57 boost_1_64_0 boost_1_64_0.tar").
• Prepare file changes for Git commit (i.e., "git add -A").
• Build and run unit tests against XL (i.e., "sudo make -C ~/src/xl -j 8 test") to ensure that there are no build errors and all unit tests pass.
• Commit changes (i.e., "git commit -m "US1799: TA6006: 1.64.0"").
• Push changes to GitHub (i.e., "git push jack US1799:US1799").