Sorry that I forgot to cc ports@ list.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Li-Wen Hsu <lw...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Alexander Churanov > <alexanderchura...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi folks! >> >> Just want to synchronize our knowledge on this stuff. >> >> 1) The patch to update devel/boost from 1.34 to 1.37 is ready for several >> months. > > That is great and I made another patch based on your own, which fixed > some minor problems > (includes building on amd64): > > http://people.freebsd.org/~lwhsu/boost-1.37.diff > >> 2) I've asked for taking a maintainership over devel/boost. >> >> 3) I am currently rebuilding all ports that depend on boost in order to >> identify possible issues caused by update. > > Pav had an exp-run and here is the list of the ports which failed: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~lwhsu/boost-1.37.txt > > All OpenOffice.org ports are failed, openoffice.org-2.4.2_1.log is > just one of them. > >> 4) There is a wiki page with more details: >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/BoostPortingProject >> >> 5) Of course, to goal is to upgrade directly to 1.38 when all issues are >> resolved. > > So are you working on a new patch currently? Maybe you can based on > my 1.37 patch > (appply that first then update it to 1.38), this may help thing goes > more smoothly. > >> 6) Another goal is to have all subsequent updates at corresponding dates of >> boost releases. > > That's really a lot of work, maybe we also need to notify maintainers > and see if upstream has > newer version which supports newer version boost. For the currently > status, if we want have 1.37 > in the tree, the fastest way is repocopy devel/boost to devel/boost134 > and changes all the > LIB_DEPENDS of the ports which needs 1.34 to build. Maybe we just set > a time to make > this happen? > > Best Regards, > Li-Wen Hsu > _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"