From 9d2f1b0eac7b377f2bd444e48bd9046ff359d6f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Kirchner Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 10:42:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about boost 1.70+ and solidity<=0.5.9 to the docs. --- docs/installing-solidity.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/installing-solidity.rst b/docs/installing-solidity.rst index 77521cca2..c31b21f9e 100644 --- a/docs/installing-solidity.rst +++ b/docs/installing-solidity.rst @@ -201,6 +201,13 @@ The following are dependencies for all builds of Solidity: .. _CMake: https://cmake.org/download/ .. _z3: https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3 +.. note:: + Solidity versions prior to 0.5.10 can fail to correctly link against Boost versions 1.70+. + A possible workaround is to temporarily rename ``/lib/cmake/Boost-1.70.0`` + prior to running the cmake command to configure solidity. + + Starting from 0.5.10 linking against Boost 1.70+ should work without manual intervention. + Prerequisites - macOS ---------------------