[OE-core] boost fails to build on MIPS

[Robert Yang]

On 05/31/2015 12:45 AM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> On 30-05-15 00:09, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 20:24 +0200, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>>> On current OE master, boost fails to build, because something attempts
>>> to add "-m32" to the gcc commandline for no apparent reason.
>>>
>>> Can anyone confirm this, or am I the only MIPS user in the world?
>>
>> This is an upstream boost bug.  See the entertaining history at:
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>> https://github.com/boostorg/build/commit/9576ca216cae888d7efb5da97c009c245c5ba567
>
> Strange, I added this fix as a patch to bjam (which seems to be the one causing
> all the troubles), but still get the same build error, even after cleansstate
> both bjam-native and boost.
>
> Maybe some cross-compiler stupidity like that it looks at the build machine's
> arch instead of the target host's?

Hello,

I verified the following 2 patches work:

https://github.com/boostorg/build/commit/c0634341d9ee2c02d3a55c91dafb988afc066c49
https://github.com/boostorg/build/commit/9576ca216cae888d7efb5da97c009c245c5ba567

I will send a fix for boost.

// Robert


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