Re: [gentoo-user] How to split boost emerge

[Michael Mol]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Michael,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> While trying to emerge gnash, I was forced to emerge --update boost.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But it failed! (I was actually doing emerge --deep --update @world)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I set MAKEOPTS="" as suggested to prevent multiple build jobs.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So, here are last words. They don't say anything to me :-(
>>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In the future, please attach, rather than in-line, stuff like build logs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Okey. Thanks for the tip and sorry for the trouble.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here's what's killing it for you:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In file included from ./boost/thread/detail/platform.hpp:17:0,
>>>>>>>>                  from ./boost/thread/mutex.hpp:12,
>>>>>>>>                  from libs/locale/src/shared/date_time.cpp:11:
>>>>>>>> ./boost/config/requires_threads.hpp:29:4: error: #error "Threading
>>>>>>>> support unavaliable: it has been explicitly disabled with
>>>>>>>> BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS"
>>>>>>>> In file included from ./boost/thread/mutex.hpp:12:0,
>>>>>>>>                  from libs/locale/src/shared/date_time.cpp:11:
>>>>>>>> ./boost/thread/detail/platform.hpp:67:9: error: #error "Sorry, no
>>>>>>>> boost threads are available for this platform."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh! I missed it. Thanks a lot for going through this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm not going to venture a guess as to why this is happening on your
>>>>>>> system. But there's the explicit build error, cut out from the rest of
>>>>>>> the log.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think I've hit this bug:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6165
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's gcc 4.7 related. I'll try to apply the patch suggested here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/76133
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and let you know.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As I've never patched an ebuild, this might take me some time :-(
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey, whaddaya know, my first was last week. I got some great help in
>>>>> the #gentoo-chat IRC channel. I'll send you a transcript off-list, and
>>>>> a link to my b.g.o entry.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Great! I already have the patch, but putting it into
>>>> /etc/portage/patches didn't work :-(
>>>
>>> Read the transcript; it goes through how you create a private overlay
>>> and verify that portage is using it.
>>>
>>
>> ok, tons of thanks.
>
> Worked like a charm, following your instructions.
>
> I'll open now a bug and attach the upstream patch.

Thank Mike Gilbert (floppym) for the instructions. I simply have
logging enabled in my IRC client and knew how to use grep. :)

Glad to hear it helped, though!

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