Boost iostream still present in trunk

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#1

Bug 0001135 was closed but automake still uses boost iostream in 3 Makefile.am at svn revision 2991.

I have attached a patch file to fix that:

cd /path/to/svn/trunk
patch -p0 < vcmi-boost-iostream-automake.patch

to fix it manually:
remove @BOOST_IOSTREAMS_LIB@
in client/Makefile.am , lib/Makefile.am and Scripting/ERM/Makefile.am

EDIT:
Attaching patch files doesn’t seem to work. You can retrieve it from here:
bpaste.net/show/52913/
qdii.dodges.it/vcmi%2dboost%2dio … make.patch

Gentoo ebuilds for vcmi 0.90
#2

Done. Autotools build works. But you should use CMake instead - autotools will be removed before next release.

#3

Thanks Ivan.
Out of curiosity, why do you guys stop supporting autotools?

#4

CMake is much more easy to use (at least for developer). Suporting autotools is quite painful:

  • ./configure script is NOT portable - different autotools versions sometimes won’t work.
  • weird issues if configure script was not re-generated with completely illogical errors.
  • lack of GOOD documentation.

On the other hand - CMake is easy to use, cross-platform, well-documented - no issues so far.