[Buildroot] Why does boost require bzip2
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Mon Jun 3 18:36:00 UTC 2013
>>>>> "Will" == Will Wagner <will_wagner at carallon.com> writes:
Will> Hello,
Will> Does anyone know why the boost package requires bzip2? I am
Will> wanting to build a very small rootfs and require only a single
Will> boost library, I want to avoid the overhead of having the bzip2
Will> library in my target fs.
It has been there since the boost package was added:
commit f64a740f360439bbab6526b8a08588a57ea8fd52
Author: Yegor Yefremov <yegor_sub1 at visionsystems.de>
Date: Thu Oct 13 12:39:12 2011 +0200
boost: New package added. Version 1.47
[Peter: Config.in tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Allan W. Nielsen <a at awn.dk>
Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists at googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at sunsite.dk>
But I don't know enough about boost to know if it really is needed.
I must say that libbz2 is probably not your biggest concern compared to
the size of libstdc++ and the template heavy boost code:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 peko peko 73K Jun 3 20:28 output/target/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 peko peko 624K 2013-06-03 19:42 output/target/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.16
Will> If I change the boost package it still manages to build all the
Will> libraries so I can't work out which libraries need bzip2.
Perhaps it used to be a dependency of something, and isn't anymore? We
have relatively recently (February) bumped the boost version to 1.53.0.
Will> (I also have a build failure when trying to build the boost
Will> context library, it is failing because my arm target doesn't
Will> support the assembler, I'll look into that error separately).
Thanks!
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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