[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#602959: btag: FTBFS with binutils-gold because of missing symbol 'boost::system::get_system_category()'

[Steve M. Robbins]

Hello,

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:37:43PM -0200, Fernando Lemos wrote:

> I don't plan to do anything about this for the time being. The reason
> for the FTBFS (as reported by others[2]) is that boost::filesystem
> uses boost::system in its internal headers (in inline methods invoked
> by the boost::filesystem::path constructor, for instance). A
> boost::filesystem user is not supposed to know in advance that
> boost::filesystem requires linkage against boost::system as this is an
> implementation detail that could change in the future.
> 
> btag does not use boost::system at all, and therefore it would not
> make any sense to think this is a problem btag must solve. I see a few
> possibilities for this being solved the right way:
> 
> 1. It might be possible to change booost::filesystem to make those
> methods that rely on boost::system (I think it's just
> boost::system::error_code) not inline anymore. This would work fine,
> but it might not be viable as C++ templates must be inlined. I don't
> see this happening, good luck convincing the Boost team that the way
> gold works is the right way.

Speaking only for myself: please do explain why gold is an
improvement.  It seems to be a regression to me and my suggestion
would be to avoid it and use the current linker.

I have no idea how one would properly handle dependencies in inlined
code, such as C++ templates.

Cheers,
-Steve
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