From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 20 04:17:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 137E5106567F for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:17:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lwhsu.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB2B88FC20 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:17:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lwhsu.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so399632wah.27 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:17:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kvbCJnT8TwBif+iHmRvnLQgPXtUY52LIBp6Cv4iKIrA=; b=V+9H4eSRC6OYMl2Oeb5qgSY4d1glsaXfo4fRInx2akd46tAsrQA0KsP4bnV4fksPRd 8EGl+xPW1nU71wiaPDnJG7jb3n2j08LAxAN8TJSG6dPFKbz8y/URzZMZkfs/KgY1QZj/ 7NMMSrg7mFlsPpEZp9qtYmLcSFtRE7p+q42bc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=vR0b21z3BQpqZscDdEI0dsy4y2c15Qo1GnV/WITr5qyCey6+Z5gkXVtd+Q3VkecSTp aaX6OrZRsWAz7wRFlbq35aKuxdTVlZdbitHenSlA/rzVFk+0PpWL9qlpFUBJsH+6jHeA +wa7A4jQoSOjvHqM2Z8fCr8IDUAqJNVsXHKkQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: lwhsu.freebsd@gmail.com Received: by 10.114.131.11 with SMTP id e11mr163438wad.75.1235101783889; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:49:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1e39c0a90902191947j612e3c3bo769cfb771a2f51a1@mail.gmail.com> References: <3cb459ed0902191459le2b20d5s14b13a032714802b@mail.gmail.com> <1e39c0a90902191947j612e3c3bo769cfb771a2f51a1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:49:43 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: f05bb5cee95ea9f2 Message-ID: <1e39c0a90902191949h63543bd9w8ce8c4c0eaa5f7b8@mail.gmail.com> From: Li-Wen Hsu To: ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Status of devel/boost X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:17:49 -0000 Sorry that I forgot to cc ports@ list. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Li-Wen Hsu wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Alexander Churanov > 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 >