[Mageia-dev] Update to boost-1.53 ?

Wed Apr 3 23:40:52 CEST 2013

Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> writes:
+
+> 31.03.2013 12:47, Barry Jackson kirjoitti:
+>> As mentioned in last week's packager's meeting, there is a problem with 
+>> our gnuradio package, because upstream have blacklisted boost-1.52.
+>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8789
+>> 
+>> I have spent considerable time test rebuilding all packages from current 
+>> svn that BuildRequire boost, against boost-1.53 to see if an update of 
+>> boost is viable. (x86_64 only so far)
+>> 
+>> Fixes have been applied to some packages and now there are just two 
+>> remaining that fail to build:-
+>> 
+>> libyui
+
+[...]
+
+>> The alternative to updating boost would be to drop gnuradio from Mageia3.
+>
+> Third alternative is to backport the boost fix to 1.52:
+> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/81289
+
+Going back to first alternative, we could backport this in boost 1.53 to fix libyui:
+https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/82103
+
+See https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7809
+(libyui is built with -std=c++0x)
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+