Re: [patch] Updating info to build Abi Word on Mac OS X

Hi Martin,

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Xun Sun <xun.sun.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Fabiano,
>>
>>> One more thing, Xun. Even that I try to compile passing
>>> --disable-plugins to autogen, boost is required.
>>> Please, see: src/text/ptbl/xp/pd_Document.h:66
>>
>> Good catch. This piece of code is not in 2.8 stable series. Not sure
>> if this piece of code is expected to depend on boost. If this is
>> expected, the we need to state the dependency explicitly in
>> configure.in.
>>
>> Can other developers comment? uwog, Martin, Hub?
>>
>> There had been a discussion on depending on boost back in 2007, but I
>> could not find a conclusion there:
>>
>> http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2007/Apr/0005.html
>
>
> Boost is now required for 2.9 and later.

Thanks for clarification. Is this dependency build-time only? Or also run-time?

> This was done to enable our
> new RDF feature, implemented by Ben Martin. In addition redland is
> required for the ODF plugins for 2.9 and later.
>
> See:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/librdf/
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>

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Thanks & regards
Xun Sun