[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#454605: Boost & gcc 4.1 (was Bug#454605: build against new icu 3.8 packages)

[Pierre Habouzit]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:21:36PM +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:55:29PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> 
> >   rebuilding Boost as-is would require a new Boost transition.
> 
> Why would that be?  gcc-4.1 and gcc-4.2 are supposed to be fully
> ABI-compatible.

  Because boost upstream encodes all the things they use to build it in
their soname or whatever, making it ABI incompatible ? And I'm sure
they're proud of it to boo(s)t.

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder at debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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