On 18.06.2010 11:38, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > On 06/18/2010 09:30 AM, Allan McRae wrote: >> On 18/06/10 16:24, Daniel Bumke wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Does anyone know what's going on with boost? It seems it was downgraded >>> from 1.42.0 to 1.41.0 a while back, and hasn't been updated to the >>> latest 1.43.0. >>> >>> I was going to build the latest on my machine, but if there's something >>> wrong with it I might hold off or go with the older version. I know >>> there was some talk about splitting it up; is that the reason? >>> >> >> From memory 1.42 broke encfs. The encfs developers blame boost, the >> boost developers blame encfs, so nothing was done in recent updates from >> either side. >> >> So we either update boost or break encfs... >> >> Allan > > encfs devs released a new version which works with > 1.41. > > yesterday i built 1.43 but the splitting is holding me back. It has a > very annoying build system and until now we have in the bugtracker one > which is copying files around from a directory to another. FS#19749 > What's the issue here though? We have a working split package and everyone is happy? Bjam is a crappy build system but until CMake is more actively maintained by Boost (last boost-cmake release was 1.41) it'll have to do. Boost is an important part of C++ development, it should not go without update in Arch. -- Sven-Hendrik
