Bug 440680 – boost-utils.eclass has to be deprecated

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gordon Pettey 2012-11-01 01:53:07 UTC]

boost-utils.eclass get_includedir or get_libdir check for a slot, which includes the current version, and appends that directory to $libdir. Boost files are now directly in $libdir, but the functions return $libdir/boost-version/. Ebuilds then fail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge new unslotted boost.
2. Emerge ebuild using boost-utils.eclass
3. Build fails, looking for libs in $libdir/boost-version instead of $libdir

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-11-01 02:43:48 UTC]

Also:
# @MAINTAINER: ...

[Comment 2 Craig Andrews 2012-11-01 21:14:45 UTC]

For an example, this bug causes emerge of net-libs/rb_libtorrent-0.16.3 to fail:

Checking for boost libraries:
configure: error: --with-boost-libdir expected directory name

Others fail similarly.

[Comment 3 Gordon Pettey 2012-11-01 21:53:45 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> For an example, this bug causes emerge of net-libs/rb_libtorrent-0.16.3 to
> fail:
> 
> Checking for boost libraries:
> configure: error: --with-boost-libdir expected directory name
> 
> Others fail similarly.

Actually, rb_libtorrent is not currently using boost-utils (though it should be changed to do so).

[Comment 4 Gordon Pettey 2012-11-01 21:58:02 UTC]

Alternatively, boost-utils.eclass may be obsolete, given that its only function is to get the directory based on SLOT.

[Comment 5 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2012-11-22 03:50:12 UTC]

Zac is it possible to add this to the list of deprecated eclasses so that we get a warning if somebody tries to use it?

[Comment 6 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2012-11-22 21:55:06 UTC]

Done:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commitdiff;h=da268c268e7fb91318a4676025ec841a4444b362

[Comment 7 Zac Medico 2012-11-29 23:53:16 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.11.32 and 2.2.0_alpha143.