Re: [lmi] Where do we use boost::system?

[Greg Chicares]

On 2016-01-26 04:32, Greg Chicares wrote:
> On 2016-01-26 03:45, Greg Chicares wrote:
>> I'm working on '-std=c++11' cross-compilation, and I can build boost-1.33.1's
>> 'regex' and 'filesystem' libraries...but that version has no 'system' 
>> library.
>> Why were we building it? Was it for xmlwrapp? If so, is there a configure
>> option to avoid using it?
> 
> I reconfigured and rebuilt everything, and it all seemed to work, suggesting
> that whatever library wanted that didn't really need it (or recognized that
> it's not in 1.33.1 and fell back on some alternative). But I want to remove
> almost everything and build again just to be sure.

I removed the lmi source and fetched it again from svn, and now it doesn't
build: lmi is the code that wanted boost::system. AFAICT, that dependency
was added for boost-1.38.0, but boost::system doesn't exist in boost-1.33.1
(which we use in production). I hacked it out of 'configure.ac', and then
lmi built successfully.

I think the chain of causation here is that boost was upgraded to 1.38.0
in autotools only...and only for expm1() and log1p()...which AIUI can be
necessary only for msvc...but I didn't think msvc builds were autotoolized.
So can we just revert 1.38.0 to 1.33.1 in 'configure.ac'? Whatever benefit
1.38.0 may have brought, it's now an obstacle to upgrading to C++11, whereas
1.33.1 is not.

BTW, new timings: debian-8 on bare metal (old machine), --jobs=16:

  wx: no '-std' vs. '-std=c++11'
make $coefficiency install  2969.58s user 109.25s system  957% cpu 5:21.63 total
make $coefficiency install  3579.30s user 152.91s system 1058% cpu 5:52.49 total

  lmi: no '-std' vs. '-std=c++11'
make $coefficiency install   745.96s user  39.50s system 1039% cpu 1:15.60 total
make $coefficiency install  1062.60s user  54.20s system 1197% cpu 1:33.28 total