Problem with Boost and long double

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 10:45:31AM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes I understood, still I need to make sure disabling is not breaking on of the
boost-libs users before doing it. That requires building all of them :) Which
may take time

regards,
Bapt
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