xdg-app-builder and boost

[Alexander Larsson]

On fre, 2015-12-11 at 08:30 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> I guess there's no easy way to use boost's awful build system in xdg
> -app-builder, right?
> 
> This is how to build boost:
>   ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=path/to/installation/prefix
>   ./b2 install
> 
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_59_0/more/getting_started/unix-varian
> ts
> .html#easy-build-and-install
> 
> Maybe I should tell xdg-app-builder to use a patch that adds a
> wrapper
> configure script and a Makefile file?

Here is a boost-using manifest:

https://github.com/alexlarsson/nightly-build-apps/blob/master/org.inkscape.InkscapeDevel.json


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