On 03/24/2016 03:09 PM, Don Lewis wrote:
> On 22 Mar, Kay Schenk wrote:
>>
>> On 03/21/2016 06:14 PM, Don Lewis wrote:
>>> When building OpenOffice with recent versions of clang, an extreme
>>> number of very verbose warnings are generated by the Boost headers,
>>> which basically doubles the size of the build log.
>>>
>>> For the FreeBSD port, which uses the system Boost (still 1.55 for now),
>>> I fixed this by cherry picking a number of commits from more recent
>>> versions of Boost and and adding them as patches to the Boost port.
>>> This greatly reduces the noise level.
>>
>> I like this approach as we already have a patch file for
>> boost_1.55 in our source tree...
>>
>> /main/boost/boost_1_55_0.patch
>>
>> I would favor adding more boost patches to this existing
>> patch file and submitting through BZ so we could test on
>> additional platforms before permanently committing.
>
> Ok, here it is: <https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126888>
Super! This will give us non-BSD folks a chance to test out
in more detail.
>
>>>
>>> To fix this when building with the bundled Boost, we could import these
>>> same patches. Another possibility is to upgrade bundled Boost to 1.60,
>>> which contains these fixes as well as a fixes for most (or all) of the
>>> other problems that we currently patch. The only problem that I've run
>>> into when building OpenOffice trunk with Boost 1.60 was with the PDF
>>> Import plugin, and I commited a fix for that in r1735889.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> I remember trying to use boost 1.56 from my system once upon
>> a time and ran into all kinds of problems. I've been leary
>> about using a newer version of boost ever since. In general,
>> I'm not opposed to an upgrade like this but we would need
>> more extensive testing with our distributed platforms first.
>> And, that could take *a while*.
>
> I've been involved in updating the FreeBSD boost port from 1.55 to 1.60.
> I think it broke about 44 of 300 ports that use boost. I didn't run
> into any issues with OpenOffice 4.1.2 and only one build problem with
> OpenOffice 4.2.0, and that was in the PDF import plugin, which the
> official Apache OpenOffice builds will not enable. I've already
> committed a fix for that problem and I now get clean builds with 1.60.
>
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