On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> tag 530478 patch pending
> thanks
>
> Steve M. Robbins <s...@debian.org> (24/05/2009):
> > Due to the recently-introduced package boost-defaults [1], the
> > unversioned Boost -dev packages changed from Boost version 1.34.1 to
> > version 1.38.0.
> >
> > You package now fails to build due to that change. Specifically, you
> > will need to link against "-mt" variants of the boost libraries.
> >
> > Upstream stopped building separate single- and multi-threaded variants
> > of all libraries and Debian followed suit as of 1.37.0. The
> > single-threaded variant was named, e.g. "-lboost_regex" while the
> > multi-threaded variant was suffixed with "-mt", i.e. named
> > "-lboost_regex-mt". Your package needs to change its linker
> > arguments.
>
> Thanks for these explanations, Steve (I've managed to get boost on
> kfreebsd-* and I wondered a bit why linking failed, and first thought
> our packages were botched somehow). I've prepared a fixed package
> uploaded to DELAYED/3 to fix that. Tim: you can incorporate the changes
> and do an MU in the meanwhile, or ask me to cancel it if you would like
> more time to do that yourself. But given there was no answer on this bug
> report yet, I chose “action by default”. :)
I've looked at your changes and they look fine; so no need to cancel the
upload. Thanks for accelerating progress on this bug!
-Tim Abbott
