OpenOffice and boost

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 27 16:47:27 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:10:07AM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> Hello;
> 
> Maho-san has updated openoffice-devel to the last version that used 
> stlport internally. This is a great advance for the upstream OpenOffice 
> as it means that it will start using modern STL functionality by default.
> 
> In general OpenOffice now uses TR1 functionality from Boost to replace 
> what libstdc++ may not have.  Unfortunately this will not work in 
> FreeBSD 9.x due to a bug in boost.
> 
> In order to update OpenOffice further it is necessary (but probably not 
> sufficient) to either update boost to version 1.55 (best) or apply 
> ports/181044.
> 
> I know there have been complains about the maintenance (or lack of it) 
> in the openoffice ports but there are limits on to what Maho and I can 
> do. It would also be great if someone works on adding staging to the 
> OpenOffice ports.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
Everything needs a new boost unfortunatly noone is willing to work on it, I
started and stopped here: http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/boost-1.55.0.diff
If anyone it willing to working ont it.

regards,
Bapt
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