[avg@FreeBSD.org: Re: ports/156253: [exp-run] [patch] Update devel/boost-* from 1.45 to 1.46.1]

[Doug Barton]

My port is already up to date.

Where can we get a copy of the latest version of an updated boost port?

To what extent are these problems being caused by local modifications to
boost?


Doug


On 03/03/2012 23:39, Mark Linimon wrote:
> At some point FreeBSD needs to update to the latest version of boost
> One or more of your ports was shown to break during our last -exp run:
> 
> http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/amd64-errorlogs/e.8-exp.20120127093941/
> 
> Can each of you take a look to see if the latst version of the port from
> upstream fixes known problems with boost?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> mcl
> 
> for reference:
> 
> aqsis-                  gahr at FreeBSD.org
> cgal-                   wenheping at gmail.com
> eiskaltdcpp-lib-        gelraen.ua at gmail.com
> galaxyhack-             ports at FreeBSD.org
> gigi-                   oliver at FreeBSD.org
> gstreamer-qt4-          fluffy at FreeBSD.org
> lander-                 amdmi3 at FreeBSD.org
> libYGP-                 ports at FreeBSD.org
> libreoffice-            office at FreeBSD.org
> libtorrent-rasterbar-   dougb at FreeBSD.org
> luxrender-              danfe at FreeBSD.org
> merkaartor-             dev2 at heesakkers.info
> mkvtoolnix-             multimedia at FreeBSD.org
> openlierox-             amdmi3 at FreeBSD.org
> openvrml-               ports at FreeBSD.org
> plee-the-bear-          amdmi3 at FreeBSD.org
> ros-common-             rene at FreeBSD.org
> scribe-                 jnlin at csie.nctu.edu.tw
> simgear-                martymac at FreeBSD.org
> springlobby-            amdmi3 at FreeBSD.org
> wesnoth-                philip at FreeBSD.org
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Andriy Gapon <avg at FreeBSD.org> -----
> 
> Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:35:52 +0200
> From: Andriy Gapon <avg at FreeBSD.org>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, churanov.port.maintainer at gmail.com
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: ports/156253: [exp-run] [patch] Update devel/boost-* from 1.45
> 	to 1.46.1
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64;
> 	rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120221 Thunderbird/10.0.2
> 
> Just a note that 1.49 has been released.
> 
> Regarding the exp-run results and this comment
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/156253#reply7 -  I think that the
> number of the failing ports is sufficiently small and the current boost version is
> sufficiently outdated to justify breaking those ports and putting onus on their
> maintainers and upstreams.
> 
> I suspect that in some case just updating the ports to the latest upstreams could
> fix the problems.
> 
> 
> http://pointyhat.FreeBSD.org/errorlogs/amd64-errorlogs/a.8-exp.20120127093941/libreoffice-3.4.5.log
> This bug report seems to describe the same issue and has fixes:
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=64945
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43139
> 
> http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/amd64-errorlogs/a.8-exp.20120127093941/gstreamer-qt4-0.10.1_1.log
> http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/amd64-errorlogs/a.8-exp.20120127093941/wesnoth-1.8.6.log
> Googling for <error: 'boost::BOOST_FOREACH' has not been declared> provides a
> number of recipes for a fix - the problem seems to be universally caused by
> #define foreach BOOST_FOREACH somewhere in (non-boost) source code.
> 
> http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/amd64-errorlogs/a.8-exp.20120127093941/gstreamer-qt4-0.10.1_1.log
> Again google helps (<Parse error at "BOOST_JOIN">):
> https://bugreports.qt-project.org//browse/QTBUG-22829
> 
> Every problem seems to have a solution already.  We are not the first to use newer
> boost :-)
> But it's unreasonable to expect that a single person should fix all the problems
> in advance.  The task should be parallelized among maintainers of the dependent
> ports (and their users with hacking skills).
> 


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