Bug 473768

Summary:	=dev-libs/boost-1.49.0-r2 creates bad /usr/include/boost symlink
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Roger <rogerx.oss>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	C++ Team [disbanded] <cpp+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	blueboar, rogerx.oss
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Roger 2013-06-19 04:59:56 UTC

=dev-libs/boost-1.49.0-r2 creates bad /usr/include/boost symlink.

Reproducible: Always




Packages building against boost includes will merrily break on compile such as:

sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools-0.1.5-r1
checking boost/bind.hpp usability... no
checking boost/bind.hpp presence... no
checking for boost/bind.hpp... no
configure: error: bailing out


Work Around:

rm /usr/include/boost

ln -s /usr/include/boost-1_49/boost /usr/include/boost

Comment 1 Roger 2013-06-19 05:00:46 UTC

Users will usually encounter this error when doing "emerge -e world".

Comment 2 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev

2013-08-03 08:03:55 UTC

*** Bug 479594 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev

2014-05-16 10:40:15 UTC

All boost ebuilds, that present currently in tree handle /usr/include symlink properly