[ooo-build] ooo-build-3.1.0.99.3 fails building sddll0.hxx

[Rene Engelhard]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:31:54PM -0400, John B wrote:
>    Until the boost developers fix their code (assuming they're even going to
>    do so), would it be possible to test for the version of boost on a box and
>    fall back to the boost in the libs-extern-sys package if boost 1.37 or
>    later is detected? Cristoph Willing, the maintainer of the Slackware

No. Because distris *do* use system-boost with a fixed boost. Failing if
boost >= 1.37 would be bogus.

>    configurations, reported in another post in this thread that boost-1.36 as
>    the system boost worked for him in building ooo-build. Or would it be

True. Because as said, it got broken in boost at 1.37.

>    better not to test for the version of boost and warn anybody using boost
>    1.37 or later as their system boost to pass --without-system-boost to the
>    configure script?

No. Again, there's distros who care about the quality of their packages
and so fix their boost. (At which time you can build OOo against
that boost without problem).

Of course, if you have a working configure check for this which does *not*
involve checking the version, send it and someone of us will have alook on it.

Grüße/Regards,

Rene
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