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 1RhMpD-0004fu-0s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:55:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D21621C14B; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 14:55:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3089521C046 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 14:53:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com ([74.125.82.53]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RhMnF-000f9h-IS for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:53:49 +0700 Received: by wgbds1 with SMTP id ds1so23685731wgb.10 for ; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:53:42 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.227.208.129 with SMTP id gc1mr56077411wbb.4.1325429622590; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:53:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.78.208 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 06:53:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.78.208 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 06:53:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F0070D6.5060305@wht.com.au> References: <4F0070D6.5060305@wht.com.au> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 21:53:42 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where's the examples????? From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015174a050cd44f5104b578a103 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: 21e35145-e304-455e-9238-1a17139b3679 X-Archives-Hash: 333db02b707430bcd2de414fbe1afe77 --0015174a050cd44f5104b578a103 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Jan 1, 2012 9:45 PM, "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 > Usually USE=docs install the docs. Also, some packages have USE=examples. The customary location is /usr/share/docs/$PACKAGE-$VERSION Rgds, --0015174a050cd44f5104b578a103 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Jan 1, 2012 9:45 PM, "Andrew Lowe" <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:
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> Hi all,
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0I'm playing around with the Boost libra= ry, www.boost.org, at the moment and t= he question is in relation to it but the question also applies to other lib= raries I've played around with, where are the examples and doco kept? >
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0I 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 whe= n dealing with libraries such as Boost? Boost does not seem to have a USE f= lag that says "Install examples somewhere" so I'm at a bit of= a loss as to where this stuff is?
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Andrew
>

Usually USE=3Ddocs install the docs. Also, some packages have USE=3Dexam= ples.

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

Rgds,

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