build: require Boost >= 1.74.0

Change-Id: I3bead8ac881eeccd49cf0a82584336e1081e2f26

Author: Pesa

README-dev.md

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ The simplest way to run the tests is to launch the compiled binary without any p
 ./build/unit-tests
 ```
 
-The [Boost.Test framework](https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_71_0/libs/test/doc/html/index.html)
+The [Boost.Test framework](https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_74_0/libs/test/doc/html/index.html)
 is very flexible and allows a number of run-time customization of what tests should be run.
 For example, it is possible to choose to run only a specific test suite, only a specific
 test case within a suite, specific test cases across multiple test suites, and so on:
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ or `-p` to show a progress bar:
 
 There are many more command line options available, information about which can be obtained
 either from the command line using the `--help` switch, or online on the
-[Boost.Test website](https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_71_0/libs/test/doc/html/boost_test/runtime_config.html).
+[Boost.Test website](https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_74_0/libs/test/doc/html/boost_test/runtime_config/summary.html).
 
 > [!WARNING]
 > If you have a customized `client.conf` in `~/.ndn`, `/etc/ndn`, or `/usr/local/etc/ndn`

docs/INSTALL.rst

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Required
 
 - GCC >= 10.2 or clang >= 10.0 (if you are on Linux or FreeBSD)
 - Xcode >= 13.0 or corresponding version of Command Line Tools (if you are on macOS)
-- Boost >= 1.71.0
+- Boost >= 1.74.0
 - OpenSSL >= 1.1.1
 - SQLite >= 3.31
 - pkgconf >= 1.6

docs/examples.rst

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ The following example demonstrates how to use :ndn-cxx:`Scheduler` to schedule a
 events for execution at specific points of time.
 
 The library internally uses `boost::asio::io_context
-<https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_71_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/io_context.html>`__
+<https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_74_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/io_context.html>`__
 to implement fully asynchronous NDN operations (i.e., sending and receiving Interests and
 Data).  In addition to network-related operations, ``boost::asio::io_context`` can be used
 to execute any arbitrary callback within the processing thread (run either explicitly via

ndn-cxx/util/time.hpp

@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ fromIsoExtendedString(const std::string& isoString);
  * \param format desired output format (default: `%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S`)
  * \param locale desired locale (default: "C" locale)
  *
- * \sa https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_71_0/doc/html/date_time/date_time_io.html#date_time.format_flags
+ * \sa https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_74_0/doc/html/date_time/date_time_io.html#date_time.format_flags
  *     describes possible formatting flags
  **/
 std::string
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ toString(const system_clock::time_point& timePoint,
  * \param format input output format (default: `%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S`)
  * \param locale input locale (default: "C" locale)
  *
- * \sa https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_71_0/doc/html/date_time/date_time_io.html#date_time.format_flags
+ * \sa https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_74_0/doc/html/date_time/date_time_io.html#date_time.format_flags
  *     describes possible formatting flags
  */
 system_clock::time_point

wscript

@@ -113,18 +113,14 @@ def configure(conf):
     conf.check_openssl(lib='crypto', atleast_version='1.1.1')
 
     conf.check_boost()
-    if conf.env.BOOST_VERSION_NUMBER < 107100:
-        conf.fatal('The minimum supported version of Boost is 1.71.0.\n'
+    if conf.env.BOOST_VERSION_NUMBER < 107400:
+        conf.fatal('The minimum supported version of Boost is 1.74.0.\n'
                    'Please upgrade your distribution or manually install a newer version of Boost.\n'
                    'For more information, see https://redmine.named-data.net/projects/nfd/wiki/Boost')
 
     # Boost.Log requires Boost.Thread
     boost_libs = ['chrono', 'log', 'thread']
 
-    # Boost.Date_Time is header-only since 1.73
-    if conf.env.BOOST_VERSION_NUMBER < 107300:
-        boost_libs.append('date_time')
-
     stacktrace_backend = conf.options.with_stacktrace
     if stacktrace_backend is None:
         # auto-detect