This is basically a duplicate of bug #252287 (which was fixed several weeks ago for earlier versions of boost). Boost-1.39.0 fails to build with gcc-4.4.0-r1, eventually dying with something like In file included from libs/wave/src/instantiate_cpp_literalgrs.cpp:23: ./boost/optional/optional.hpp: In static member function 'static unsigned int boost::wave::grammars::chlit_grammar_gen<TokenT>::evaluate(const TokenT&, boost::wave::grammars::value_error&) [with TokenT = boost::wave::cpplexer::lex_token<boo st::wave::util::file_position<boost::wave::util::flex_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>, boost::wave::util::CowString<boost::wave::util::AllocatorStringStorage<char, std::allocator<char> >, char*> > > >]': ./boost/optional/optional.hpp:262: warning: dereferencing pointer '<anonymous>' does break strict-aliasing rules ./boost/optional/optional.hpp:422: note: initialized from here ./boost/optional/optional.hpp:268: warning: dereferencing pointer '<anonymous>' does break strict-aliasing rules ./boost/optional/optional.hpp:422: note: initialized from here ...failed updating 1 target... ...updated 1337 targets... * * ERROR: dev-libs/boost-1.39.0 failed. The fix is exactly the same as the one that Diego Pettenò and Ryan Hill added to boost-1.35, 1.36 and 1.37 a few weeks ago: add [[ $(gcc-version) > 4.3 ]] && append-flags -Wno-strict-aliasing to the ebuild. Then boost-1.39.0 will compile with gcc-4.4 For some reason, the bugfix was not propagated to boost-1.39.0 when it was version bumped today.
--- /usr/portage/dev-libs/boost/boost-1.39.0.ebuild 2009-07-16 04:36:51.000000000 -0500 +++ boost-1.39.0.ebuild 2009-07-16 23:30:15.098207012 -0500 @@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ # yeah, we WANT it to work on non-Linux too sed -i -e 's/#ifdef __linux__/#if 1/' libs/random/random_device.cpp || die fi + + # Huge number of strict-aliasing warnings cause a build failure w/ >= GCC 4.4 bug #252287 + [[ $(gcc-version) > 4.3 ]] && append-flags -Wno-strict-aliasing } src_configure() { It seems gcc-4.4 support was drop'd from the ebuild, simply readd and compiles fine.
That's a workaround and not a fix. While this may be appropriate for older boost versions (since backporting surely causes headaches) we have to make sure that the new version is fixed properly.
The problem is that this appears to be gentoo-specific, and upstream considers these warnings false-positives. I don't know why this is failing, but I do know that no other distro using GCC 4.4 has come across it.
And to make the matter even more complicated: I successfully built boost-1.39.0 here with gcc-4.4.0
Created attachment 198558 [details] build.log
(In reply to comment #4) > And to make the matter even more complicated: I successfully built boost-1.39.0 > here with gcc-4.4.0 > what use flags are you using? is e.g. gcc built with 'vanila' or some such?
Maybe one of these patches can help : http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/boost/current/SOURCES/
(In reply to comment #4) > And to make the matter even more complicated: I successfully built boost-1.39.0 > here with gcc-4.4.0 > What package manager?
paludis, but my recent conclusion is that it's a gcc-bug. I could narrow it down to one file in the wave-library. The problem is that when I try to build it 10 times, it works 1 or 2 times. What is common is that gcc just stops compiling at some point without any further notice or error. It even forgets the line feed. But as far as I could tell it always works when you disable the warnings. What we can try: backport/get the strict-aliasing fixes from the boost trunk to really fix the issue (as did the exherbo-devs). That will most likely avoid to trigger that gcc-bug.
if it were a GCC bug, it seems to me that one of the other many distros using GCC 4.4 would have also encountered it. but anyways, if we're going this route, the best place to start is looking for is fixes applied to boost/wave/grammars/cpp_expression_value.hpp boost/wave/util/flex_string.hpp
Also fails for me with gcc 4.4. Build log attached.
Created attachment 199264 [details] Build log on x86_64
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Fixed with readding -Wno-strict-aliasing since backporting is too cumbersome and boost-1.40.0 which fixes it anyway is near (beta should be published this weekend).
