Ubuntu: Inconsistent boost package dependencies

[Martyn Gigg]

The CMake scripts on Ubuntu do not require any particular boost version for building. However, the package dependencies are listed as so (on 12.04):

libboost-date-time1.46.1,libboost-regex1.46.1,...,libboost-python${Boost_MAJOR_VERSION}.${Boost_MINOR_VERSION}.${Boost_SUBMINOR_VERSION}

This leads to two different boost versions being used if 1.48 was used to build but then the package tries to pull in 1.46.

This was seen when setting up the new build servers recently where two had different boost versions installed.

[Martyn Gigg]

Don't hard code boost version for deb package.

It now uses the macros set by FindBoost to determine what version of boost was used to build Mantid. Refs #9400

Changeset: ef7481039f804d07d6e790f6a7269fc4faff8a88

[Martyn Gigg]

Branch: bugfix/9400_deb_pkg_boost_versions

Tester: This will require a Ubuntu 12.04 environment to test. Download the latest package from the incremental develop ​build

First check the package dependencies by running

dpkg -I FILENAME

All of the mentions of boost should have the same version: currently either 1.46.1 or 1.48.0 depending on where it was built (this is to be addressed separately).

Try to install the package and check that it installs correctly with

sudo gdebi FILENAME

and run it with

/opt/Mantid/bin/MantidPlot -v

It can then be removed with

sudo dpkg --purge mantid

[Arturs Bekasovs]

Required boost library versions reported by dpkg are all the same (1.48.0 in that case).

Was able to install the downloaded .deb. gdebi pulled 1.48.0 boost libraries while doing that.

Apart from fixing the described problem, changes make the CMakeLists.txt source much clearer.

[Arturs Bekasovs]

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/bugfix/9400_deb_pkg_boost_versions'

Full changeset: ​e0794ce42f75c20de3b54b4bf181f11f6a8414a1

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​10243