[ build LNK ] Library/libsclo.so /var/tmp/portage/app-office/libreoffice-3.5.5.3/work/libreoffice-core-3.5.5.3/workdir/unxlngx6.pro/CxxObject/sc/source/core/tool/scmatrix.o: In function `_GLOBAL__sub_I_scmatrix.cxx': scmatrix.cxx:(.text.startup+0x2b): undefined reference to `boost::system::generic_category()' scmatrix.cxx:(.text.startup+0x37): undefined reference to `boost::system::generic_category()' scmatrix.cxx:(.text.startup+0x43): undefined reference to `boost::system::system_category()' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/app-office/libreoffice-3.5.5.3/work/libreoffice-core-3.5.5.3/workdir/unxlngx6.pro/LinkTarget/Library/libsclo.so] Error 1
You should be able to work around this by passing -lboost_system to the build.
Created attachment 318304 [details, diff] boost-1.50-support.patch Please find attached working patch, it has been tested.
Could you please update to latest mdds and retry without your patch? It should work.
app-office/libreoffice-3.5.5.3 now builds correctly with Boost 1.50. (app-office/libreoffice-3.6.0.4 has many unrelated build failures.)