Boost 1.55.0 (Was: Re: PowerPC Packages)

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Thu Jun 26 16:36:28 UTC 2014


On 06/26/14 08:44, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 08:35:14AM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>> On 06/26/14 03:02, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 07:23:05AM -0700, Justin Hibbits wrote:
>>>> As I mentioned earlier, you can set "FAVORITE_COMPILER=gcc" in
>>>> make.conf, and it'll build with gcc47.
>>> FAVORITE_COMPILER looks more like a hack to me.  Ideally boost's port
>>> Makefile should be fixed instead.
>>>
>>> I also would rather use system compiler (whether it's gcc4.2 or clang)
>>> instead of gcc47.
>>>
>>> ./danfe
>>>
>> Yes, it should be made to respect whatever cc is.
> As long as cc is supported upstream, boost being a nightmare to maintain I will
> reject all patches that are not accepted upstream first, otherwise bumping to
> 1.56 will be painful.
>
> That said I fully support the effort.
>
> regards,
> Bapt

Surely there's a way to pass the compiler that you want to bjam at the 
command line.
-Nathan


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