From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RhMhh-0000r6-UC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:48:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C410D21C0F3; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 14:47:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0E7821C0B4 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 14:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iakk12 with SMTP id k12so30603812iak.40 for ; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:46:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=b91VmMhBaWR8+laThpQkb7Sflqja8MOwP/Auy/zYpx4=; b=HFAK7LbrbqhCyiBtIetvW/jpzkUYOdNGoikWljVNg2Ta30ytczVclfEe+T6NP/+1Qy eZ6mSM48kIxdpNdhXi7juvwAI0BoIpS8ETMP1y1Eo10PS8zv05XFshoa350iAsGCC4gm lz7vy6TOngmQLLz+O93e6XpQr7e49hnwlAOXc= Received: by 10.50.183.199 with SMTP id eo7mr54594002igc.5.1325429193225; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:46:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([121.246.205.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j3sm153193794ibj.1.2012.01.01.06.46.31 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:46:32 -0800 (PST) Sender: Nilesh Govindrajan Message-ID: <4F0071C5.9040702@nileshgr.com> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:16:29 +0530 From: Nilesh Govindarajan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111128 Thunderbird/8.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where's the examples????? References: <4F0070D6.5060305@wht.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4F0070D6.5060305@wht.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bd5a2038-50ae-4169-8031-0fa082080abf X-Archives-Hash: 4b425b50b5e79e7bf72b2017df24bb3f On Sun 01 Jan 2012 08:12:30 PM IST, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I'm playing around with the Boost library, www.boost.org, at the > moment and the question is in relation to it but the question also > applies to other libraries I've played around with, where are the > examples and doco kept? > > I can't seem to find the Boost example source code anywhere. I > also can't find the doco that comes with Boost. Is there a default > location that ebuilds should drop examples and doco when dealing with > libraries such as Boost? Boost does not seem to have a USE flag that > says "Install examples somewhere" so I'm at a bit of a loss as to > where this stuff is? > > Any thoughts greatly appreciated, > > Andrew > I don't know about the examples, but the doc useflag installs documentation in /usr/share/doc/boost- -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com