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boost-defaults package

  1. Bug #531973
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 531973

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

Because of the way Boost packages are built, there is not a good way to build the MPI packages in Ubuntu without pulling all of the MPI stack into Main and no one is willing to do that. The default boost version has, AFAIK, never supported MPI for this reason.

If someone can come up with a way to build the MPI and related boost binaries with the MPI build-dependencies in Universe, I'm willing to consider it (this would require a separate build as the default boost that's in main can't use them).