Problems with new boost

[Chris Rees]

On 8 July 2012 11:19, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 06/02/2012 18:26, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 05/27/2012 02:33, Doug Barton wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> I maintain net-p2p/libtorrent-rasterbar*, and net-p2p/qbittorrent29.
>>> Ever since the update I've noticed that my libtorrent-rasterbar
>>> applications have problems with the new boost version. Rebuilding the
>>> library against boost 1.45 solves it.
>>>
>>> I don't know exactly what the problem is, but the symptom is that the
>>> application gets "slow," and eventually just freezes up altogether. It
>>> starts with the UI being slow to respond, with increasing pauses between
>>> responses. The network transfers also get slower and slower as time goes
>>> by. Eventually as I said above the whole thing just freezes. No response
>>> on the UI, no network traffic, no ktrace activity, nothing.
>>>
>>> If you can give me suggestions on how to diagnose this I'd be glad to help.
>>
>> Just want to bump this a bit because I'm starting to get reports from
>> users of the above ports that they are seeing the same problem.
>
> Just FYI, this problem has not magically disappeared. :)

Is this a boost problem?  Perhaps upstream might be more help.

Chris