Leave boost filesystem

[boxanm]

Description

Summary:

Minor changes to the docs (mostly replacing old eth links with norlab).
I removed the boost::filesystem dependency completely from libpointmatcher and replaced it with the equivalent std::filesystem. Some of the boost methods have been deprecated for a long time and started causing compilation issues and unexpected behaviors on newer platforms.

Changes and type of changes (quick overview):

• Update docs links
• Remove the boost::filesystem dependency

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[boxanm]

The build is failing on Bionic because we have an outdated compiler. This thread has an explanation.
@RedLeader962 can you add these lines to the Bionic's Dockerfile?

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gcc-9 g++-9

[RedLeader962]

@boxanm Does it mean that we can drop the Boost install step from build_system/ubuntu/lpm_install_dependencies_general_ubuntu.bash or is it required for other dependencies?

n2st::teamcity_service_msg_blockOpened "Install Libpointmatcher dependencies › Boost"
# https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_79_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html

sudo apt-get update &&
  sudo apt-get install --assume-yes "${APT_FLAGS[@]}" \
    libboost-all-dev &&
  sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

n2st::teamcity_service_msg_blockClosed

[RedLeader962]

@boxanm So updating the LPM dependencies is a two steps process:

1. rebuild and push the dependencies to dockerhub
2. build and test the current PR.

I'm updating the build system dependencies install script in a separate branch dev-build-add-bionic-specific-gcc-install-requirement--nmo-585.
The dependencies are rebuilding at the moment and I've programmed a remote run for your PR branch that will start right after the dependencies are done re-building.
I'll keep you posted

[boxanm]

@RedLeader962 We still need boost for other stuff, for now I just replaced the broken dependency on boost::filesystem. Eventually I'd like to remove boost completely but that might be a longer project.

[RedLeader962]

@boxanm dev-build-add-bionic-specific-gcc-install-requirement--nmo-585 PR #583 has passed and is now merge in develop. Subsequent remote run of the leave-boost-filesystem branch with the updated dependency is green. I've merge PR #583 into PR #581 and waiting for build #223 result.

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