Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Tiziano Müller" <dev-zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] boost-utils.eclass -- for building against newest boost.
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:14:13
Message-Id: 1346141441.190464.4.camel@storm
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] boost-utils.eclass -- for building against newest boost. by hasufell
1 Am Dienstag, den 28.08.2012, 09:43 +0200 schrieb hasufell:
2 > On 08/28/2012 06:26 AM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
3 > >
4 > > There needs to be a way to specify maximal accepted slot of Boost.
5 > > Examples of some possibilities: * BOOST_MAX_SLOT="1.49" global
6 > > variable * '--max 1.49' arguments for boost-utils_get_* functions
7 > >
8 >
9 > Exactly. I don't see any reason for this eclass except this feature.
10 > The current expected behavior of boost and build systems is that
11 > always the latest installed will be picked.
12 >
13 > In fact this breaks packages in 3 of 4 cases on new boost versions.
14 >
15 > And while we are it it, we can punt the useless eselect implementation.
16
17 boost-1.50 already removes symlinks created by eselect-boost and doesn't
18 depend on it anymore.