On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Sage Weil <sweil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > We'd really like to use the latest boost, mainly so that we can use > small_vector in a zillion places and avoid extra memory allocations. The > distros, as always, are behind. > > The thoguht is to bring it in as yet another submodule, build it > statically (it's pretty fast), and link statically. There are a handful > of places where the distro boost links dynamically. For example, on > xenial, it's > > libboost-iostreams1.58.0 > libboost-program-options1.58.0 > libboost-random1.58.0 > libboost-system1.58.0 > libboost-thread1.58.0 > > I'm not sure how we should deal with that. We could simply link it > statically. Alternatively, we could ship packages.. but if we do that we > might as well just conditionally build against the new features and then > build a full set of backported boost packages for the distros we care > about. > > I'm not sure how to best proceed. But it would be really great to get > access to new boost features like small_vector... > If we need to have it as a submodule then build it conditionally. Then make a decision per distro, whether we want to not use new functionality, or backport packages, or have it linked statically. Yehuda -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
