install-system-deps: replace libboost-all-dev with specific components (Ubuntu/Debian)#233
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…s (Ubuntu/Debian) libboost-all-dev pulls in ~100 packages (MPI/OpenMPI/InfiniBand, graph-parallel, python, etc.) that the standalone build does not use, adding several minutes to cold CI runs on GitHub-hosted runners. The standalone build only links these boost components: - context - filesystem - program_options - regex - thread Install just those component -dev packages plus libboost-dev (which provides the header-only libraries folly uses, e.g. boost/optional.hpp). Fedora's boost-devel is already the conventional install on that distro (not the same wide pull as Ubuntu's libboost-all-dev), and macOS uses brew's single 'boost' package — both left untouched. Closes #87.
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Closes #87.
Problem
standalone/install-system-deps.shinstallslibboost-all-devon Ubuntu/Debian, which pulls in ~100 packages — MPI, OpenMPI, InfiniBand, graph-parallel, python, etc. — that the standalone build does not need. This adds several minutes to cold CI runs on GitHub-hosted runners.What we actually use
The standalone build (and o-rly) link these Boost components:
contextfilesystemprogram_optionsregexthread…plus headers-only Boost (
boost/optional.hppand friends, used by folly).Fix
Replace
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libboost-devprovides the header-only side of Boost; each-component-devprovides the corresponding.so/.a.)Why Fedora/macOS are untouched
boost-develis already the conventional install on that distro — it doesn't pull the kitchen-sink the way Ubuntu'slibboost-all-devdoes.boostis a single package that provides the components moxygen needs.So this PR only changes the Ubuntu/Debian block.
Verification
apt-cache depends libboost-all-devon ubuntu-22.04 lists ~30 direct boost subpackage deps each with several transitive deps, totaling ~100 installed packages.apt-cache depends libboost-context-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-devlists ~25 installed packages including their direct shared-library deps.This change is