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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:50:30
Message-Id: CA+czFiAO7NN58QCvWcDMeBrk+FL7uEZdyR20GQXd+6z5ME=imw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò
2 <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>wrote:
3
4 > On 30/10/2012 13:39, Michael Mol wrote:
5 > > In general, I agree...but Boost wasn't intended to be a shared library,
6 > > so there shouldn't be a conflict there.
7 >
8 > But there are shared libraries, and they are not small either. And I'd
9 > rather, say, hunt an RWX section problem (a security problem) with a
10 > single shared library rather than having to hunt it down in a dozen or so.
11 >
12 > Besides, honestly it's not that bad. I think that half the headache that
13 > we're having is due to the slotting more than from boost itself. And the
14 > other half is due to people actually not going to fix their crap because
15 > "oh I can just use the older version" (until a new compiler or C library
16 > comes out).
17 >
18 > I've had to do my share of porting to newer boost — and as I said most
19 > of the headaches have been for the build system to find the object,
20 > rather than anything else.
21 >
22
23 Thank you. That was enlightening. :)
24
25 --
26 :wq

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>