Re: [Boost-users] Installing 1.56 on Fedora 20

Robert Jones wrote:

On 18 August 2014 14:14, Neal Becker wrote:

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The best way to discover these things is download the src package to see how the standard fedora package is built.

yumdownloader --source xxxxx

That's a handy tip, thanks. My ignorance of rpms is letting me down now. I've done

yumdownloader --source boost

which downloaded 1.54, but listing its contents with

rpm -q -p boost-1.54.0-9.fc20.src.rpm -l

doesn't show me anything which obviously contains a build line. Where would I find this?

Thx, Rob.

Install the source rpm: rpm -i xxx.srpm Now you can find the .spec file and see everything. I also just learned, you can fine a spec file like this: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/boost.git/tree/boost.spec?h=f20 -- -- Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it