Boost 1.55.0 (Was: Re: PowerPC Packages)

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 06/26/14 09:36, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On 06/26/14 08:44, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 08:35:14AM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>> On 06/26/14 03:02, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 07:23:05AM -0700, Justin Hibbits wrote:
>>>>> As I mentioned earlier, you can set "FAVORITE_COMPILER=gcc" in
>>>>> make.conf, and it'll build with gcc47.
>>>> FAVORITE_COMPILER looks more like a hack to me.  Ideally boost's port
>>>> Makefile should be fixed instead.
>>>>
>>>> I also would rather use system compiler (whether it's gcc4.2 or clang)
>>>> instead of gcc47.
>>>>
>>>> ./danfe
>>>>
>>> Yes, it should be made to respect whatever cc is.
>> As long as cc is supported upstream, boost being a nightmare to 
>> maintain I will
>> reject all patches that are not accepted upstream first, otherwise 
>> bumping to
>> 1.56 will be painful.
>>
>> That said I fully support the effort.
>>
>> regards,
>> Bapt
>
> Surely there's a way to pass the compiler that you want to bjam at the 
> command line.
> -Nathan

As a follow-up, it is using clang because the ports system tells it to, 
not because of something in boost. boost has c++11-lang in its Makefile, 
which makes bsd.compiler.mk set CXX to clang++, which boost then uses.
-Nathan