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probcomp / crosscat

A domain-general, Bayesian method for analyzing high-dimensional data tables
http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/crosscat/
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Build success with Mac OS X #32

Closed prb closed 9 years ago

prb commented 9 years ago

Just wanted to share a build success with other Mac OS users:

BOOST_ROOT=/opt/local CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/local/include python setup.py build
BOOST_ROOT=/opt/local CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/local/include python setup.py install
gregory-marton commented 9 years ago

Is there a bug or feature request here?

prb commented 9 years ago

There are several, I think, but all focused on documentation. You could regard the above success story as a proposed patch for documentation. It is also the case that I only went that route because none of the examples work with the docker image.

riastradh-probcomp commented 9 years ago

The boost_random issue is basically a bug in MacPorts, that it does not install the non-mt versions of the boost libraries, not even in the form of symlinks to the -mt versions.

Everywhere else, the library is in fact boost_random, and since (a) Crosscat is not multithreaded, and (b) the -mt versions of libraries are optional things to build in boost, using boost_random instead of boost_random-mt is correct.

We could just use the -mt variant on OS X, under the assumption that probably most boost builds for OS X include multithreading support, although that would be overkill for, e.g., Homebrew-installed boost, which if I recall correctly builds both variants.

riastradh-probcomp commented 9 years ago

No longer relevant because we need no longer link against boost (although we still use boost header files), as of ad8adbb70742ff0fcd109e494aa84537fdbb6f87.