Jason Bacon <jwbacon%tds.net@localhost> writes:
> I'm wondering how the GCC 4.5 requirement was determined for the
> latest boost pkg.
>
> I'm guessing it came from here:
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/libs/log/doc/html/log/installation.html
>
> This page indicates that it was tested with GCC 4.5, but may work with
> older compilers. In fact, it seems to work fine with GCC 4.4.7, which
> is the default compiler for CentOS 6.5.
>
> Since the GCC 4.5 pkg does not build on CentOS 6.5, this requirement
> prevents boost from building as well. I changed the requirement in
> meta-pkgs/boost/Makefile.common to the following as a work-around:
>
> # GCC 4.5 or later is required to build, and GCC 4.5 is not provided
> for OpenBSD
> .if ${OPSYS} == "OpenBSD"
> GCC_REQD+= 4.6
> .elif ${OPSYS} == "Linux"
> GCC_REQD+= 4.4
> .else
> GCC_REQD+= 4.5
> .endif
>
> Any objections to importing this change or a similar one?
No objections, but it seems broken that one can't just say 4.4 and have
the infrastructure choose the smallest available version >= the one
given. But that's not about your change, so you shouldn't have to fix
that before commmiting :-)
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