[SciPy-Dev] Bundling Boost?

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav@iki.fi> wrote:
> > 08.10.2012 02:58, Fernando Perez kirjoitti:
> > [clip]
> >> So before we end up foisting upon RedHat users or similar the
> >> requirement that to build scipy they need to rebuild their compilers
> >> from source, which I suspect wouldn't be a very popular move, let's
> >> find out what is the oldest version of gcc this particular part of
> >> boost will require.
> >
> > The venerable gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48) manages to
> > compile this subset of Boost without problems, so I wouldn't be too
> > worried about Linux platforms.
>
> numpy currently requires a specific rather-old version of mingw to
> build on win32, might be a good idea to double-check that too.
>

Pauli's branch builds for me with MinGW.

Ralf
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