Re: [PATCH] gnu: boost: Update to 1.60.0

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 11:18:19PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> It has 140 dependent packages, including LibreOffice, so kinda
>> borderline for master.  It’s probably safer on a separate branch that
>> Hydra will build.  Mark?
>
> Finally hydra picked up the branch. Unfortunately, the new boost fails
> to build on mips:
>    http://hydra.gnu.org/build/914532
>
> I find it difficult to see what is the problem in the build log
> (C++, eh?)...

The error is:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
gcc.compile.c++ 
bin.v2/libs/context/build/gcc-4.9.3/release/threading-multi/unsupported.o
libs/context/src/unsupported.cpp:7:2: error: #error "platform not supported"
 #error "platform not supported"
  ^
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The options I can think of are:

  1. Mark mips64el-linux as unsupported (134 packages depend on Boost,
     notably LibreOffice, Abiword, and Ardour).

  2. Build Boost without multi-threading support on MIPS, assuming it’s
     only this feature that’s unsupported.

  3. Hope that Debian has a patch to fix this and apply it.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.