Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:47:38 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: office@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice and boost Message-ID: <52E7C30A.10108@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20140127164720.GC33006@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <52E684DF.8000109@FreeBSD.org> <20140127164720.GC33006@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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On 27.01.2014 11:47, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:10:07AM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >> Hello; >> >> Maho-san has updated openoffice-devel to the last version that used >> stlport internally. This is a great advance for the upstream OpenOffice >> as it means that it will start using modern STL functionality by default. >> >> In general OpenOffice now uses TR1 functionality from Boost to replace >> what libstdc++ may not have. Unfortunately this will not work in >> FreeBSD 9.x due to a bug in boost. >> >> In order to update OpenOffice further it is necessary (but probably not >> sufficient) to either update boost to version 1.55 (best) or apply >> ports/181044. >> >> I know there have been complains about the maintenance (or lack of it) >> in the openoffice ports but there are limits on to what Maho and I can >> do. It would also be great if someone works on adding staging to the >> OpenOffice ports. >> >> Best regards, >> > Everything needs a new boost unfortunatly noone is willing to work on it, I > started and stopped here: http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/boost-1.55.0.diff > If anyone it willing to working ont it. IMHO ... office@ may not be the best maintainer for this port: it is obviously used by many other ports different from the office suites. At some point we should probably just commit the update and have the dependent port maintainers figure out the issues on their ports. Just my $0.02, Pedro. > regards, > Bapt
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