Bug 13754 – A small change will allow Boost library to build on ppc (and others?)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mike Small 2003-01-11 22:10:00 UTC]

The boost builder (jam) goes into an architecture dependent sub-directory after
being built.  When it came to running it, the present ebuild
(boost-1.29.0.ebuild) hardcoded the directory to the x86 version.  Just by using
${ARCH} in the directory name, the ebuild works on ppc, and perhaps others - I
didn't check whether gentoo architecture names matched every boost suffix.

[Comment 1 Mike Small 2003-01-11 22:12:00 UTC]

Created attachment 7212 [details, diff]
Fix to allow building on ppc.

Apply this patch to boost-1.29.0.ebuild and you should be able to build on ppc.

[Comment 2 Mark Guertin 2003-01-14 15:07:53 UTC]

tossing this to nall toget some attention, my workload is _way_ overboard ATM

[Comment 3 Jonathan Nall 2003-01-17 09:29:15 UTC]

k, i was able to build on ppc successfully. i'll make sure it still works on x86
tonight (i can see no reason why it wouldn't) and if so, i'll patch the build
and mark it ~ppc.

[Comment 4 Jonathan Nall 2003-01-26 19:30:08 UTC]

this is fixed and committed in CVS.