Bug 955590 – games-strategy/wesnoth-1.18.3 fails to build with boost-1.88 error: ‘search_path’ is not a member of ‘bp’

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrei Slavoiu 2025-05-07 18:52:23 UTC]

../wesnoth-1.18.3/src/filesystem.cpp: In function ‘std::string filesystem::get_exe_dir()’:
../wesnoth-1.18.3/src/filesystem.cpp:1025:32: error: ‘search_path’ is not a member of ‘bp’
 1025 |         bfs::path search = bp::search_path(exe).string();
      |                                ^~~~~~~~~~~
../wesnoth-1.18.3/src/filesystem.cpp:1032:22: error: ‘search_path’ is not a member of ‘bp’
 1032 |         search = bp::search_path(exe).string();
      |                      ^~~~~~~~~~~
../wesnoth-1.18.3/src/filesystem.cpp: In function ‘std::string filesystem::sanitize_path(const std::string&)’:
../wesnoth-1.18.3/src/filesystem.cpp:1736:24: error: ‘replace_all’ is not a member of ‘boost’
 1736 |                 boost::replace_all(canonicalized, user_name, "USER");
      |                        ^~~~~~~~~~~


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Michael Uleysky 2025-05-07 23:22:23 UTC]

Created attachment 928085 [details, diff]
Fix build with boost-1.88

This patch works with boost-1.88; its functionality with earlier versions has not been tested.