[gentoo-user] Where's the examples?????

[gentoo-user] Where's the examples?????

[Andrew Lowe]

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Where's the examples?????

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

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-<ver>

-- 
Nilesh Govindarajan
http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Where's the examples?????

[Pandu Poluan]

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On Jan 1, 2012 9:49 PM, "Nilesh Govindarajan" <contact@nileshgr.com> wrote:
>
> 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-<ver>
>

The examples are also placed there, usually in compressed form.

Rgds,

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Re: [gentoo-user] Where's the examples?????

[Pandu Poluan]

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On Jan 1, 2012 9:45 PM, "Andrew Lowe" <agl@wht.com.au> 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
>

Usually USE=docs install the docs. Also, some packages have USE=examples.

The customary location is /usr/share/docs/$PACKAGE-$VERSION

Rgds,

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