Boost port

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 21, 2010, at 15:52, Scott Haneda wrote:

> sudo port install boost +universal seems to have stalled out on my after about 2 hours of the CPU burning up.

Yup, boost is big and takes a long time to build, and of course adding +universal makes it take twice as long. Depending on your CPU speed, you may need to give it a few more hours.


> I see there is this ticket http://trac.macports.org/ticket/24851
> 
> Is that read to go, or should I create a local repo, apply the patch, and try that out?

You know as much as we do from reading the ticket. :) Feel free to try it locally if you like, but it'll probably take at least as long as the previous version.