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 1RhMrY-0005im-W3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:58:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3E2721C0F0; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 14:57:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE3E21C144 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 14:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com ([209.85.212.181]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RhMoq-000fip-Rc for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:55:28 +0700 Received: by wibhq2 with SMTP id hq2so9304470wib.40 for ; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:55:22 -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 10.180.93.193 with SMTP id cw1mr65858450wib.5.1325429722563; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:55:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.78.208 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 06:55:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.78.208 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 06:55:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F0071C5.9040702@nileshgr.com> References: <4F0070D6.5060305@wht.com.au> <4F0071C5.9040702@nileshgr.com> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 21:55:22 +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=f46d043bdedec9c4ea04b578a7fe 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: 581177ab-218e-4d3f-8ef3-856fe12e36a4 X-Archives-Hash: b0458df6c1afca73c9ac669cfb233e60 --f46d043bdedec9c4ea04b578a7fe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Jan 1, 2012 9:49 PM, "Nilesh Govindarajan" 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- > The examples are also placed there, usually in compressed form. Rgds, --f46d043bdedec9c4ea04b578a7fe Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


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,
> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 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 als= o
> > applies to other libraries I've played around with, where are= the
> > examples and doco kept?
> >
> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 I can't seem to find the Boost example source c= ode anywhere. I
> > also can't find the doco that comes with Boost. Is there a de= fault
> > location that ebuilds should drop examples and doco when dealing = with
> > libraries such as Boost? Boost does not seem to have a USE flag t= hat
> > says "Install examples somewhere" so I'm at a bit o= f a loss as to
> > where this stuff is?
> >
> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
> >
> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 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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