| Summary: | www-plugins/gnash-0.8.8 RDEPENDS blocks zero slot of boost | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Daniel Santos <daniel.santos> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | mrpouet |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | 10.1 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
If you have boost installed from the :0 slot then gnash build system will pick it up before the slotted one, causing the build to fail if a different version is eselected. What possible reason do you have to still keep boost-1.35 installed? Ahh, it's good to know that there is a reason, thank you.
> What possible reason do you have to still keep boost-1.35 installed?
Yes, you pose a good question. It appears that I installed it in November of 2009 when working on a gaming project. I know I had a good reason when I installed it, but I can't quite remember what it was -- I'm thinking it was a compatibility issues with some other layer of the software.
Either way, I guess my question is: Should macros/boost.m4 be modified to pick up the correct version of boost (I noticed in my build log it's using 1.43 headers with 1.35 libraries -- probably a bad thing) or should the existence of 1.35 be considered so obsolete that such a configuration is completely unsupported. If the former, please leave this bug open until it's fixed. If the later, then go ahead and close it as WONTFIX.
Thanks,
Daniel
Also, I wonder if it would be helpful to at least add a comment to the ebuild that the configure script picks up slot zero if it's installed? Maybe this scenario is more common than I realize, but it certainly struck me as odd when I initially saw it. A comment was added to the ebuild. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 334259 *** |
The follow two atoms exist in RDEPENDS >=dev-libs/boost-1.41.0 !!dev-libs/boost:0 This is blocking me from building and looks like a train wreck. Can anybody tell me a legitimate reason for blocking the zero slot? If not, we can please remove it.