In my company's use of Boost, we have found that the Boost RPM installed with Linux distributions such as Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not quite meet our needs. This happens because that RPM does not install the multi-threaded versions of the libraries, nor does it preserve the version information on the installed libraries. I have attached an RPM spec file that addresses these issues and that allows targeting 32-bit Linux from an x86_64 installation (though it has to exclude Boost.Python and Boost.iostreams). Personally, I would like to see Boost RPMs built that follow the existing Boost conventions more closely, but that may not be a popular view. If nothing else, I thought that posting this file would be helpful to people who have run into the same issues that we have seen. -Patrick -- Patrick L. Hartling | VP Engineering, Infiscape Corp. PGP: http://tinyurl.com/2oum9 | http://www.infiscape.com/ %define tarball_name boost_1_33_1 %define python_arch %(python -c 'import os; print os.uname()[4]') %if %{python_arch} == %{_arch} %define build_python 1 %else %define build_python 0 %endif Name: boost Summary: The Boost C++ Libraries Version: 1.33.1 Release: 1 License: Boost Software License URL: http://www.boost.org/ Group: System Environment/Libraries Source: %{tarball_name}.tar.bz2 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/boost-%{version}-root Prereq: /sbin/ldconfig BuildRequires: libstdc++-devel python Obsoletes: boost <= 1.33.0 Obsoletes: boost-devel <= 1.33.0 Obsoletes: boost-doc <= 1.33.0 %if %{build_python} Obsoletes: boost-python <= 1.33.0 %endif %description Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library. One goal is to establish "existing practice" and provide reference implementations so that the Boost libraries are suitable for eventual standardization. (Some of the libraries have already been proposed for inclusion in the C++ Standards Committee's upcoming C++ Standard Library Technical Report.) %package devel Summary: The Boost C++ Headers Group: System Environment/Libraries Requires: boost = %{version}-%{release} %if %{build_python} Obsoletes: boost-python-devel <= 1.33.0 Provides: boost-python-devel = %{version}-%{release} %endif %description devel Headers for the Boost C++ libraries %package doc Summary: The Boost C++ html docs Group: System Environment/Libraries Requires: boost = %{version}-%{release} %if %{build_python} Provides: boost-python-docs = %{version}-%{release} %endif %description doc HTML documentation files for Boost C++ libraries %prep rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %setup -n %{tarball_name} -q %ifarch i386 i486 i586 i686 %define arch_args <cflags>-m32 <cxxflags>-m32 <linkflags>-m32 <linkflags>-L/usr/lib %else %ifarch x86_64 %define arch_args <cflags>-m64 <cxxflags>-m64 <linkflags>-m64 <linkflags>-L/usr/lib64 %endif %endif %build without_libs='' %if %{build_python} == 0 without_libs="$without_libs --without-python" %endif # This is a hack. A better way needs to be devised for determining when # the local architecture does not match the target architecture. %if %{python_arch} != %{_arch} without_libs="$without_libs --without-iostreams" %endif #build bjam (cd tools/build/jam_src && ./build.sh) #build boost with bjam BJAM=`find tools/build/jam_src/ -name bjam -a -type f` PYTHON_VERSION=`python -V 2>&1 |sed 's,.* \([0-9]\.[0-9]\)\(\.[0-9]\)\?.*,\1,'` PYTHON_FLAGS="-sPYTHON_ROOT=/usr -sPYTHON_VERSION=$PYTHON_VERSION" $BJAM $PYTHON_FLAGS "-sTOOLS=gcc" "-sBUILD=release <threading>single/multi %{arch_args}" "--prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}" $without_libs stage %install mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir} mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_includedir} mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_docdir} mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_docdir}/boost-%{version} tar -C stage/lib -cvf - . | tar -C $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir} -xpf - # install include files for i in `find boost -type d`; do mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_includedir}/$i done for i in `find boost -type f`; do install -m 644 $i $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_includedir}/$i done #install doc files cd doc/html; for i in `find . -type d`; do mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_docdir}/boost-%{version}/$i done for i in `find . -type f`; do install -m 644 $i $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_docdir}/boost-%{version}/$i done cd ../..; %clean rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %post /sbin/ldconfig %postun /sbin/ldconfig %files %defattr(-, root, root) %{_libdir}/*.so.%{version} %files devel %defattr(-, root, root) %{_includedir}/boost %{_libdir}/*.a %{_libdir}/*.so %files doc %defattr(-, root, root) %{_docdir}/boost-%{version} %changelog * Apr 14 2006 Patrick Hartling <patrick@infiscape.com> 1.33.1-1 - Update to 1.33.1 - Install single- and multi-threaded libraries - Install fully versioned libraries - Allow 32-bit build to be made on 64-bit architecture (currently without Boost.Python or Boost.iostreams) * Mon Nov 29 2004 Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> 1.32.0-1 - Update to 1.32.0 - (#122817: libboost_*.so symlinks missing) * Wed Sep 22 2004 Than Ngo <than@redhat.com> 1.31.0-9 - cleanup specfile - fix multiarch problem * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> - rebuilt * Wed May 05 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami@redhat.com> 1.31.0-7 - missing Obsoletes boost-python * Mon May 03 2004 Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> - (#121630: gcc34 patch needed) * Wed Apr 21 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami@redhat.com> - #121415 FC2 BLOCKER: Obsoletes boost-python-devel, boost-doc - other cleanups * Tue Mar 30 2004 Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> - Remove bjam dependency. (via Graydon). - Fix installed library names. - Fix SONAMEs in shared libraries. - Fix installed header location. - Fix installed permissions. * Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> - rebuilt * Mon Feb 09 2004 Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> 1.31.0-2 - Update to boost-1.31.0 * Thu Jan 22 2004 Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> 1.31.0-1 - Update to boost-1.31.0.rc2 - (#109307: Compile Failure with boost libraries) - (#104831: Compile errors in apps using Boost.Python...) - Unify into boost, boost-devel rpms. - Simplify installation using bjam and prefix install. * Tue Sep 09 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 1.30.2-2 - require boost-devel instead of devel in subpackages which require boost-devel - remove stray Prefix: tag * Mon Sep 08 2003 Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> 1.30.2-1 - change license to Freely distributable - verify installation of libboost_thread - more boost-devel removals - deal with lack of _REENTRANT on ia64/s390 - (#99458) rpm -e fixed via explict dir additions - (#103293) update to 1.30.2 * Wed Jun 04 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> - rebuilt * Tue May 13 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de> - remove packager, change to new Group: * Tue May 06 2003 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com> 1.30.0-3 - add deffattr's so we don't have unknown users owning files