Build success with Mac OS X

[prb]

Just wanted to share a build success with other Mac OS users:

• Install Boost via MacPorts.
• Set up Python virtualenv.
• Edit setup.py, replacing boost_random with boost_random-mt throughout.
• Build with:

BOOST_ROOT=/opt/local CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/local/include python setup.py build
BOOST_ROOT=/opt/local CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/local/include python setup.py install

[gregory-marton]

Is there a bug or feature request here?

[prb]

There are several, I think, but all focused on documentation. You could regard the above success story as a proposed patch for documentation. It is also the case that I only went that route because none of the examples work with the docker image.

[riastradh-probcomp]

The boost_random issue is basically a bug in MacPorts, that it does not install the non-mt versions of the boost libraries, not even in the form of symlinks to the -mt versions.

Everywhere else, the library is in fact boost_random, and since (a) Crosscat is not multithreaded, and (b) the -mt versions of libraries are optional things to build in boost, using boost_random instead of boost_random-mt is correct.

We could just use the -mt variant on OS X, under the assumption that probably most boost builds for OS X include multithreading support, although that would be overkill for, e.g., Homebrew-installed boost, which if I recall correctly builds both variants.

[riastradh-probcomp]

No longer relevant because we need no longer link against boost (although we still use boost header files), as of ad8adbb.