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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Boost library naming (Hieu Hoang)


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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:59:43 +0100
From: Hieu Hoang <Hieu.Hoang@ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [Moses-support] Boost library naming
To: Christian Hardmeier <christian.hardmeier@lingfil.uu.se>
Cc: "moses-support@mit.edu" <moses-support@mit.edu>
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i've taken out the code to link it to libboost*-mt

https://github.com/moses-smt/mosesdecoder/commit/c8d6ff05bd8a8735d9915775e4713636a50da22d
I'm not sure how to override it so that it links to the newer version in
preference to the system version. I guess that has to be done with
environment variables.

lets see if this is good enough


On 18 September 2014 10:09, Christian Hardmeier <
christian.hardmeier@lingfil.uu.se> wrote:

> Hi Hieu,
>
> thanks for looking at this!
>
> I believe where it goes wrong is when there's an old version of Boost
> somewhere in the system paths, as there is on many systems. If that version
> has the -mt libs (which it would have especially if it's very old since
> this was the default in the 1.30 series of Boost), moses will prefer it to
> the newer version you installed. Does that sound right?
>
> I even think I've seen it pick up new headers from a custom installation
> together with old libs from /usr/lib sometimes, but I don't remember
> exactly under what circumstances that would happen.
>
> /Christian
>
> On Sep 17, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Hieu Hoang wrote:
>
> > it looks like Moses has been configured to use
> > libboost_*
> > if the tagged version isn't available. Therefore, you don't need to
> create
> > libboost_*-mt.a
> > Isn't that good enough?
> >
> >
> >
> > On 15 September 2014 07:30, Hieu Hoang <hieuhoang@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sounds good. Since there's been no objection, feel free to check in yhe
> change yourself. Otherwise I'll do it in the next couple of weeks
> >
> > Sent from my flying horse
> >
> > > On 15 Sep 2014, at 05:44 am, Tom Hoar <
> tahoar@precisiontranslationtools.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I support the effort. Updating to standard expectations almost always
> > > reduces support requests.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tom
> > >
> > >
> > >> On 09/12/2014 02:05 PM, Pierre Lison wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I second Christian's request. We got into some trouble installing
> Moses on our cluster because of this naming scheme. It would be great to
> switch to a standard library layout for Boost.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >>
> > >> Pierre
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> 10. sep. 2014 kl. 18:14 skrev Christian Hardmeier <
> christian.hardmeier@lingfil.uu.se>:
> > >>>
> > >>> Hi everyone,
> > >>>
> > >>> Moses currently requires installing the Boost libraries with the
> --layout=tagged option. This library naming scheme has been non-standard on
> Unix-like systems since Boost 1.40.0. It forces you to use special options
> when installing Boost, and it can lead to trouble if you then try to link
> Moses against other software that prefers a standard installation -
> effectively you have to install Boost twice to make everybody happy.
> > >>>
> > >>> In my opinion, it would be preferable if Moses used the
> --layout=system scheme that you get by default in recent versions of Boost.
> Would anybody object to this?
> > >>>
> > >>> Best,
> > >>> Christian
> > >>> _______________________________________________
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> > >> --
> > >> Pierre Lison (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
> > >> Department of Informatics, University of Oslo
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> > >> Web: http://folk.uio.no/plison
> > >>
> > >>
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Hieu Hoang
> > Research Associate
> > University of Edinburgh
> > http://www.hoang.co.uk/hieu
> >
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>
>


--
Hieu Hoang
Research Associate
University of Edinburgh
http://www.hoang.co.uk/hieu
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