Re: boost-libs

[Jason Bacon <bacon4000%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 12/26/17 19:50, Mark Davies wrote:
> On 27/12/17 13:52, Jason Bacon wrote:
> > Location of the library on Ubuntu:
> >
> >
> > find /usr/lib* -name '*backtr*'
> > /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/backtrace.mod
> > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/libbacktrace.a
> > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/include/backtrace-supported.h
> > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/include/backtrace.h
> > /usr/lib/openmpi/include/openmpi/opal/mca/backtrace
> > /usr/lib/openmpi/include/openmpi/opal/mca/backtrace/backtrace.h
> >
> > Are there other platforms that have libbacktrace besides Linux? No sign
> > of it on FreeBSD, although it appears to be part of GCC, so it could
> > potentially appear anywhere.
>
> Hmm, I was guessing the location of libbacktrace (since obviously my
> linux systems don't have it), don't know what other platforms may have it.
>
> libs/stacktrace/build/Jamfile.v2 seems to be the file in boost-libs that
> controls the building of libboost_stacktrace_backtrace.  Not sure if the
> <target-os>linux: there is a requirement for the whole thing or just a
> constraint on the requirement for libdl
>
> cheers
> mark

A short-term fix would be to disable it on all platforms if nobody 
really needs it.

It would be nice to have this fixed before the 2017Q4 release so I can 
build a full set of packages from an unpatched tree.

For that reason I'd favor an easy fix now to unbreak the package and 
continued discussion to determine the best long-term solution.

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