[oe] RFC: remove boost-jam-native 3.1.11

Robert Schuster theBohemian at gmx.net
Fri Dec 5 11:19:55 UTC 2008


Hi,

Philip Balister schrieb:
>> On a related note: I invested some time to get boost 1.34.1 being build
>> nicely including the bzip2 and gzip support. Now I see that in the 1.36
>> recipe those are disabled again. That is unfortunate because wesnoth
>> needs them.
> 
> I think I added the recipe. I use it on the beagle, which uses gcc 4.3,
> which may have had some trouble with parts of boost. I'm OK with moving
> to a newer boost, but there are some non-backward compatible changes in
> boost that we will need to watch out for. I needed only a couple pieces
> from boost 1.36, so I built the ones I needed and set the recipe to
> DEFAULT_PREFERENCE="-1".
ok. I just saw that in Debian they allow installation of all kinds of
boost versions side by side. IMHO that is reasonable since boost makes
no promises regards backward compatibility.

Do want to follow this approach?

Regards
Robert

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