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-# Copyright (c) 2016 PaddlePaddle Authors. All Rights Reserved.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-include(ExternalProject)
-
-set(BOOST_PROJECT "extern_boost")
-# To release PaddlePaddle as a pip package, we have to follow the
-# manylinux1 standard, which features as old Linux kernels and
-# compilers as possible and recommends CentOS 5. Indeed, the earliest
-# CentOS version that works with NVIDIA CUDA is CentOS 6.  And a new
-# version of boost, say, 1.66.0, doesn't build on CentOS 6.  We
-# checked that the devtools package of CentOS 6 installs boost 1.41.0.
-# So we use 1.41.0 here.
-set(BOOST_VER "1.41.0")
-set(BOOST_TAR
-    "boost_1_41_0"
-    CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
-set(BOOST_URL
-    "http://paddlepaddledeps.bj.bcebos.com/${BOOST_TAR}.tar.gz"
-    CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
-
-message(STATUS "BOOST_TAR: ${BOOST_TAR}, BOOST_URL: ${BOOST_URL}")
-
-set(BOOST_SOURCES_DIR ${THIRD_PARTY_PATH}/boost)
-set(BOOST_DOWNLOAD_DIR "${BOOST_SOURCES_DIR}/src/${BOOST_PROJECT}")
-
-set(BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR
-    "${BOOST_DOWNLOAD_DIR}"
-    CACHE PATH "boost include directory." FORCE)
-set_directory_properties(PROPERTIES CLEAN_NO_CUSTOM 1)
-include_directories(${BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR})
-
-ExternalProject_Add(
-  ${BOOST_PROJECT}
-  ${EXTERNAL_PROJECT_LOG_ARGS}
-  DOWNLOAD_DIR ${BOOST_DOWNLOAD_DIR}
-  URL ${BOOST_URL}
-  DOWNLOAD_NO_PROGRESS 1
-  PREFIX ${BOOST_SOURCES_DIR}
-  CONFIGURE_COMMAND ""
-  BUILD_COMMAND ""
-  INSTALL_COMMAND ""
-  UPDATE_COMMAND "")
-
-if(${CMAKE_VERSION} VERSION_LESS "3.3.0" OR NOT WIN32)
-  set(dummyfile ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/boost_dummy.c)
-  file(WRITE ${dummyfile} "const char *dummy = \"${dummyfile}\";")
-  add_library(boost STATIC ${dummyfile})
-else()
-  add_library(boost INTERFACE)
-endif()
-
-add_dependencies(boost ${BOOST_PROJECT})
-set(Boost_INCLUDE_DIR ${BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR})