Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:49:43 +0800 From: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of devel/boost Message-ID: <1e39c0a90902191949h63543bd9w8ce8c4c0eaa5f7b8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1e39c0a90902191947j612e3c3bo769cfb771a2f51a1@mail.gmail.com> References: <3cb459ed0902191459le2b20d5s14b13a032714802b@mail.gmail.com> <1e39c0a90902191947j612e3c3bo769cfb771a2f51a1@mail.gmail.com>
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Sorry that I forgot to cc ports@ list. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Alexander Churanov > <alexanderchuranov@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi folks! >> >> Just want to synchronize our knowledge on this stuff. >> >> 1) The patch to update devel/boost from 1.34 to 1.37 is ready for several >> months. > > That is great and I made another patch based on your own, which fixed > some minor problems > (includes building on amd64): > > http://people.freebsd.org/~lwhsu/boost-1.37.diff > >> 2) I've asked for taking a maintainership over devel/boost. >> >> 3) I am currently rebuilding all ports that depend on boost in order to >> identify possible issues caused by update. > > Pav had an exp-run and here is the list of the ports which failed: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~lwhsu/boost-1.37.txt > > All OpenOffice.org ports are failed, openoffice.org-2.4.2_1.log is > just one of them. > >> 4) There is a wiki page with more details: >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/BoostPortingProject >> >> 5) Of course, to goal is to upgrade directly to 1.38 when all issues are >> resolved. > > So are you working on a new patch currently? Maybe you can based on > my 1.37 patch > (appply that first then update it to 1.38), this may help thing goes > more smoothly. > >> 6) Another goal is to have all subsequent updates at corresponding dates of >> boost releases. > > That's really a lot of work, maybe we also need to notify maintainers > and see if upstream has > newer version which supports newer version boost. For the currently > status, if we want have 1.37 > in the tree, the fastest way is repocopy devel/boost to devel/boost134 > and changes all the > LIB_DEPENDS of the ports which needs 1.34 to build. Maybe we just set > a time to make > this happen? > > Best Regards, > Li-Wen Hsu >
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