Problem with Boost and long double

[Pedro Giffuni]

Hi Baptiste;

On 02/07/2013 02:11, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 11:38:40PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>> Hello;
>>
>> In some boost related code I am working on I found problems [1] thanks
>> to the recent patch that enabled long double in boost port.
>>
>>
>> For an explanation on why our libstdc++ doesn't support long double,
>> you have to refer to this email:
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2009-March/028030.html
>>
>> Curiously it has just been discussed in -toolchain that our
>> libstdc++ is misconfigured:
>>
>> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?510EE5D2.4050409
>>
>> Perhaps the patch in the post helps fix the issues but for now I would
>> request that boost port disables again the long double support.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Pedro.
>>
>> [1] https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7987
> erg I have been happily building on all packages needing boost on my exp-run  and
> some people ensured me double long was working correctly now :(

I guess that I am the only one trying to use Boost to calculate Bessel 
functions ;).
I can send you a patch for openoffice if you want to reproduce it.

> But sure I will disable boost as soon as I can, I need to rebuild every ports to
> make sure everything is ok (mini exp-run) so won't happen before monday.

The problem is libstdc++ so if libc++ is used (like in -current) there 
should
be no problem.
The configuration update may also fix things but that requires re-building
world and all C++ ports.

Pedro.