Bug#704785: OGRE's FTBFS #713640 affects other packages

[Paul Wise]

On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 19:49 +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:

> Boost.Thread depends on some non header-only libraries.
>  Boost.System: This dependency is mandatory and you will need to link
> with the library.
> 
> Since Boost has no pkg-config or similar mechanism...
> 
> Don't you agree with this?  I don't know what you propose to do
> instead in Boost, if they don't have this pkg-config-like mechanism. 

I wasn't aware of this fact, how annoying. Yes in this situation the
current solution is the right one. It would be great if boost used
pkg-config (and similar on non-Linux platforms) but I don't expect you
to work on that :)

-- 
bye,
pabs

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