The boost update to boost-1.41.0 creates severe problems with programs relying on gziped iostreams when using a 64bit platform like amd64. This problem was already reported for archlinux and they commited a patch fixing the issue (cf [1]). One affected program is "Battle for Wesnoth" where it is impossible to join the multiplayer server using an unpatched boost-1.41.0. The issue is described in detail in the Wesnoth forums (cf [2]), the version of Wesnoth used does *not* matter. The people from archlinux have added a patch to their build that should fix the problem. The respective diff is available at [3]. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/197358/match=gzip [2] http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=28071 [3] http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/boost/repos/extra-x86_64/fix-gzip-crc.patch Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. compile games-strategy/wesnoth with dev-libs/boost-1.41.0 on an amd64 system 2. run wesnoth and try to join the MP server Actual Results: It will not be possible to join the server. It will halt in the "Connect to server" phase when it actually does create a cache of the config files. If you abort and retry you will get an error message. Expected Results: If everything was working nicely you would be creating a "correct" cache and joining the multiplayer server. No additional info required, it is just a bug in the iostreams component of boost-1.41.0 on 64bit systems (at least on amd64, not sure about other 64bit archs), so that is where it has to be fixed. 32bit platforms are not affected. Probably other programs beside wesnoth are affected, too.
This has been fixed in the -r2 that's now in the tree.
