[pkg-boost-devel] boost & gcc-4.2

[Matthias Klose]

Domenico Andreoli writes:
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:14:38AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > Hi Boost maintainers,
> 
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> > with GCC-4.2 in unstable now, and boost-1.34.0 unbuildable, what is
> > your plan with boost when GCC-4.2 becomes the default GCC in unstable?
> > I've read on a mailing list, that bjam 3.1.15 doesn't segfault; is
> > this an alternative to use?
> 
> If you are saying boost is unbuildable only because of bjam 3.1.14
> segfaults, we will manage to somewhat use 3.1.15.

that's what I got from a ML. There seems to be at least one another
issue with a header file, see
http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/779

> Unfortunately neither 1.34.0 nor 1.34.1 support gcc 4.2 officially. So
> I guess we will dust off the boost test suite and cross the fingers.
> 
> If this classify as a plan, it is ours.

gentoo seems to work around the bjam failure:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178743