Improve boost library download (#224 | GRIDEDIT-1892)

Author: BillSenior

scripts/install_deps.sh

@@ -55,7 +55,11 @@ scl enable "${DEVTOOLSET}" bash || error "[scl] Failed to enable ${DEVTOOLSET}"
   # Alternative mirror to use if the official mirror is down
   # BOOST_MIRROR=https://mirror.bazel.build/boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/"${BOOST_VERSION}"/source/"${BOOST_LIB}".tar.gz
   # sourceforge
-  BOOST_MIRROR=https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/"${BOOST_VERSION}"/"${BOOST_LIB}".tar.gz
+  # BOOST_MIRROR=https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/"${BOOST_VERSION}"/"${BOOST_LIB}".tar.gz
+  # github
+  BOOST_LIB=boost-"${BOOST_VERSION}"
+  BOOST_MIRROR=https://github.com/boostorg/boost/releases/download/boost-"${BOOST_VERSION}"/"${BOOST_LIB}".tar.gz
+
   wget  "${BOOST_MIRROR}" || error "[boost] ${BOOST_LIB}.tar.gz download failed"
   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib64:/usr/lib64:"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
   tar -xzf "${BOOST_LIB}".tar.gz || error "[boost] ${BOOST_LIB}.tar.gz extraction failed"
@@ -65,7 +69,7 @@ scl enable "${DEVTOOLSET}" bash || error "[scl] Failed to enable ${DEVTOOLSET}"
     ./b2 -j4 cxxflags="-fPIC" runtime-link=static variant=release link=static --prefix=/opt/boost_"${BOOST_VERSION}" install \
       || error "[boost] Installation failed"
   )
-  
+
   # install miniconda
   MINICONDA3_SCRIPT="Miniconda3-${MINICONDA3_VERSION}-Linux-x86_64.sh"
   MINICONDA_URL="https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/${MINICONDA3_SCRIPT}"