On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 08:43:49PM +0100, Benoit Sigoure wrote:
I wrote a set of M4 macros to use the Boost libraries with GNU Autoconf. I did not find any macro that was reliable enough. If
I just want to mention that there exist also http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/macros-by-category.html#BOOST. See also http://randspringer.de/boost/index.html. Benoit, can you compare your macros with these from the autoconf archives? What is different? I vague remember also a few problems with ax_boost_base and friends. Some stuff was fixed by the author, other not yet (I contacted him of course).
you're interested, you can have a look at the code: http://repo.or.cz/w/boost.m4.git
Will do.
The code is currently under GPLv3+ but if Boost wants to ship this with Boost itself, and if doing this requires license adaptations, I'm inclined to use another Free license.
I'm not sure but this requires all software projects using it to use the same license? At least the autoconf archive contains a special exception to the GPL. See e.g. the bottom of http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/acx_pthread.html Jens