ports/133487: endianess detection wrong in devel/boost

[Alexander Churanov]

The following reply was made to PR ports/133487; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alexander Churanov <alexanderchuranov at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/133487: endianess detection wrong in devel/boost
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:19:21 +0400

 Resolution:
 Suggest applying this patch and keeping it until updating to boost-1.38.
 
 Analysis:
 The root cause of the issue is boost matching endianess using method
 of GNU libc, which is not compatible with the way BSDs define
 endianess. They've fixed this in 1.38 by applying a patch from NetBSD.
 See https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1922 for details.
 
 Future directions:
 The fix applied in 1.38 is to match against CPU architecture if
 matching using GNU method fails. This may re-introduce bugs for
 platforms, not specifically listed in boost header file. Suggest
 proposing the patch, attached to this issue, for permanent inclusion
 into boost libraries.
 
 Alexander Churanov,
 maintainer of devel/boost