boost: add help messages to libraries

All of the help messages come from http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_65_1/

Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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Adam Duskett 2017-10-24 11:15:06 -04:00 committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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@ -52,12 +52,18 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_LAYOUT
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_ATOMIC
bool "boost-atomic"
help
C++11-style atomic<>.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_CHRONO
bool "boost-chrono"
help
Useful time utilities. C++11.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_CONTAINER
bool "boost-container"
help
Standard library containers and extensions.
# see
# http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_59_0/libs/context/doc/html/context/architectures.html
@ -68,37 +74,64 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_CONTEXT
depends on ((BR2_arm || BR2_armeb) && BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_ARM) || \
BR2_i386 || BR2_mips || BR2_mipsel || BR2_powerpc || BR2_x86_64
depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_GCC_BUG_64735
help
C++11 context switching library.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_COROUTINE
bool "boost-coroutine"
depends on BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_CONTEXT
help
deprecated coroutine library, the non-depricated coroutine2
library is a header-only library and does not need to be
selected.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_DATE_TIME
bool "boost-date_time"
help
A set of date-time libraries based on generic programming
concepts.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_EXCEPTION
bool "boost-exception"
help
The Boost Exception library supports transporting of arbitrary
data in exception objects, and transporting of exceptions
between threads.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_FIBER
depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL
bool "boost-fiber"
depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL
help
C++11 userland threads library.
comment "boost-fiber needs a toolchain w/ NPTL"
depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_FILESYSTEM
bool "boost-filesystem"
help
The Boost Filesystem Library provides portable facilities to
query and manipulate paths, files, and directories.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_GRAPH
bool "boost-graph"
help
The BGL graph interface and graph components are generic, in
the same sense as the the Standard Template Library (STL).
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_GRAPH_PARALLEL
bool "boost-graph_parallel"
help
The PBGL graph interface and graph components are generic, in
the same sense as the the Standard Template Library (STL).
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_IOSTREAMS
bool "boost-iostreams"
select BR2_PACKAGE_BZIP2
select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
help
Boost.IOStreams provides a framework for defining streams,
stream buffers and i/o filters.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_LOCALE
bool "boost-locale"
@ -112,6 +145,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_LOCALE
# details.
depends on !(BR2_STATIC_LIBS && BR2_PACKAGE_ICU)
select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBICONV if !BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE
help
Provide localization and Unicode handling tools for C++.
comment "boost-locale needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library"
depends on BR2_PACKAGE_ICU
@ -123,6 +158,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_LOG
# for some reason, uClibc on PowerPC fails to build the boost
# log module
depends on !(BR2_powerpc && BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_UCLIBC)
help
Logging library.
comment "boost-log needs a toolchain w/ NPTL"
depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL
@ -130,33 +167,79 @@ comment "boost-log needs a toolchain w/ NPTL"
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_MATH
bool "boost-math"
help
Boost.Math includes several contributions in the domain of
mathematics:
The Greatest Common Divisor and Least Common
Multiple library provides run-time and compile-time evaluation
of the greatest common divisor (GCD) or least common multiple
(LCM) of two integers.
The Special Functions library currently provides eight
templated special functions, in namespace boost.
The Complex Number Inverse Trigonometric Functions are the
inverses of trigonometric functions currently present in the
C++ standard.
Quaternions are a relative of complex numbers often used to
parameterise rotations in three dimentional space.
Octonions, like quaternions, are a relative of complex
numbers.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_METAPARSE
bool "boost-metaparse"
depends on BR2_USE_MMU # boost-test
select BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_TEST
help
A library for generating compile time parsers parsing embedded
DSL code as part of the C++ compilation process
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_MPI
bool "boost-mpi"
help
Message Passing Interface library, for use in
distributed-memory parallel application programming.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_PROGRAM_OPTIONS
bool "boost-program_options"
help
The program_options library allows program developers to
obtain program options, that is (name, value) pairs from the
user, via conventional methods such as command line and config
file.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_PYTHON
bool "boost-python"
depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON || BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3
help
The Boost Python Library is a framework for interfacing Python
and C++. It allows you to quickly and seamlessly expose C++
classes functions and objects to Python, and vice-versa,
using no special tools -- just your C++ compiler.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_RANDOM
bool "boost-random"
help
A complete system for random number generation.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_REGEX
bool "boost-regex"
help
A new infrastructure for generic algorithms that builds on top
of the new iterator concepts.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_SERIALIZATION
bool "boost-serialization"
help
Serialization for persistence and marshalling.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_SIGNALS
bool "boost-signals"
help
Managed signals & slots callback implementation.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_STACKTRACE
bool "boost-stacktrace"
@ -169,24 +252,41 @@ comment "boost-stacktrace needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library"
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_SYSTEM
bool "boost-system"
help
Operating system support, including the diagnostics support
that will be part of the C++0x standard library.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_TEST
bool "boost-test"
depends on BR2_USE_MMU # fork()
help
Support for simple program testing, full unit testing, and for
program execution monitoring.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_THREAD
bool "boost-thread"
help
Portable C++ multi-threading. C++11, C++14.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_TIMER
bool "boost-timer"
help
Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_TYPE_ERASURE
bool "boost-type_erasure"
help
Runtime polymorphism based on concepts.
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_WAVE
bool "boost-wave"
# limitation of assembler for coldfire
# error: Tried to convert PC relative branch to absolute jump
depends on !BR2_m68k_cf
help
The Boost.Wave library is a Standards conformant, and highly
configurable implementation of the mandated C99/C++
preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use
iterator interface.
endif