On Sat, 6 Oct 2018, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
Currently we have a dependency cycle between `graph` and `graph_parallel`. It's not the only one, but it's notable with the fact that both libraries are buildable and we therefore can't ignore it as we can ignore cycles between header-only libraries that at release time become a single directory.
In the particular, this impedes efforts to generate CMake config files. Under one scheme I'm currently working on, for instance, Boost.Python can't be installed because it tries to install Graph, which tries to install GraphParallel, which tries to install Graph.
The cycle between these two is an interesting one. boost/graph/breadth_first_search.hpp does:
#ifdef BOOST_GRAPH_USE_MPI # include
#endif at its end, and boost/graph/distributed/breadth_first_search.hpp does:
#ifndef BOOST_GRAPH_USE_MPI #error "Parallel BGL files should not be included unless
has been included" #endif #include
at its very start. So these headers include each other.
One would naively think that only the parallel header should include the normal one, but one is not well versed in graph library architectures, so one might quite possibly be missing something, or a lot.
Comments?
I don't know why you are calling this a dependency. The file declares the sequential stuff, and if the parallel version is available/requested (BOOST_GRAPH_USE_MPI) makes it available as well. So you don't need the parallel version to use the sequential one. -- Marc Glisse