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Hi guys,

GNU Boost is a new project within the Boost Extras project that lets you compile Boost using only GNU development tools. In other words, automake, autoconf, libtool, configure.ac, Makefile.am, etc.

This is very powerful since that way you can recompile Boost on any system with a Bourne shell without having to worry about Jam and it is 100% compatible with all the other package compiled with libtool.... read more

Hi guys,

GNU Boost is a new project within the Boost Extras project that lets you compile Boost using only GNU development tools. In other words, automake, autoconf, libtool, configure.ac, Makefile.am, etc.

This is very powerful since that way you can recompile Boost on any system with a Bourne shell without having to worry about Jam and it is 100% compatible with all the other package compiled with libtool.... read more

This is a start, a helper to use boost::intrusive_ptr<> with objects reference counted. This is very helpful for a largescale project, especially if you already have pointers all over the place and cannot find that leak... Reference counted pointers will help you a lot. With these, you can pass bare pointers around and still save them in an intrusive_ptr<> (or smart pointer) and it will just work.... read more