Bug 456792

Summary:	dev-libs/boost-1.52.0-r5 fails to compile with custom /etc/site-config.jam: could not find main target gentoorelease
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Raimar Sandner <disp.reg.bugs.gentoo>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	C++ Team [disbanded] <cpp+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Raimar Sandner 2013-02-11 15:39:01 UTC

I don't know if this is a bug or desired behaviour.

Having a custom /etc/site-config.jam "hides" /usr/share/boost-build/site-config.jam installed by boost-build and with it the variant gentoorelease defined there. Emerging dev-libs/boost-1.52.0-r5 (and probably also 1.49.0-r2) fails early in the process with

notice: could not find main target gentoorelease

and finally:

don't know how to make gentoorelease

Maybe the ebuild could issue a warning that a custom /etc/site-config.jam is not supported or that the contents of the version installed by boost-build has to be merged into it.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev

2014-04-28 07:20:24 UTC

+  28 Apr 2014; Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org> boost-1.52.0-r6.ebuild,
+  boost-1.53.0-r1.ebuild, boost-1.54.0-r1.ebuild, boost-1.55.0-r1.ebuild:
+  Add apropriate die message on unsupported overriden site-config.jam, wrt bug
+  #456792. Thanks to Raimar Sandner <gentoo-bugzilla AT 404not-found.de> for
+  reporting this issue