On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 15:41 -0500, Braden McDaniel wrote: > On 2/4/11 3:10 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 14:33 +0100, Petr Machata wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> beta of boost-1.46.0 was released recently and packaged yesterday. It's > >> now in the git, and a scratch build[2] was done. This is in preparation > >> for final release that should be out on 7th, just before the feature > >> freeze. Providing boost-1.46.0 is one of features of F15[1]. > >> > >> I'm in the process of test-driving a couple packages locally to make > >> sure that the new boost works. If that turns out well, I'll do a > >> non-scratch build of boost-1.46.0-0.beta1 later today. > > > > Could we please either have boost.m4 packaged in Fedora, or at least > > changes for running with the latest boost in Fedora integrated upstream? > > > > Because of boost changes between December and yesterday, I wasn't able > > to recompile gnote: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641416 > > > > The build failures are here: > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2759872 > > > > It's critical if we want gnote in F15's GNOME desktop. > > Isn't boost.m4 just some third-party macro? > > Perhaps upstream could be encouraged not to use it? It seems rather > pointless to me. That is, it looks like it's checking a bunch of things > that don't need checking. AFAIK, the only configuration information one > needs to divine about Boost is the library name suffix. If one guesses > that Boost libraries will end in "-mt", one will be correct a large > majority of the time. When that's wrong, one might want to make a few > other guesses--or punt and make the user supply the suffix at configure > time (which is not at all unreasonable, since the complete list of > possible suffixes is *quite* long). I'm pretty sure the gnote developers would take any patches to remove that code, as long as it did detection as you mentioned above. If boost provided a pkg-config file, or their own macros, I'm pretty sure that gnote wouldn't be using it. I don't know enough about boost to make those changes myself, and wading through 2 tarballs of 40 megs each to figure out the library layout of boost is a bit beyond me. Cheers -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
