On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Herbert Duerr <h...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi Raymond,
>
> Steele, Raymond wrote:
> > Are you recommending that we use boost version 1_49 versus the one
> delivered with OpenOffice?
>
> Please see my other mail ("Using system boost 1.54") from today. It is
> desirable that AOO should build with newer system boost versions too,
> but it requires probably more than just a recompile to make everything
> work. Volunteers are invited to work on this interesting topic.
>
> > If so, then we will reconfigure using the --with-system-boost flag. If
> we use 1_49, does it require any special configure / build steps?
>
> I'm not sure whether anyone actually built AOO with boost 1.49, 1.50,
> 1.51, 1.52, 1.53 or the 1.54 versions, so you're in unexplored territory.
>
> Maybe 1.49 is close enough to 1.48 so using it could work out of the box
> with AOO. But as Kay noticed 1.54 is already so different that more work
> is needed for sure.
>
oh boy and thanks...I guess I missed your earlier post...I will revert to
1.49 with the patch as well. Keeping my fingers crossed.
> > Today, we replaced the 1_48 version of emplace_args.hpp with the 1_49
> version, then implemented the patch [2] and the issues below went away,
>
> Thanks for checking: It proves that we're on the right track!
>
> > but the compile complains about an undefined boost type on line 220 :
> >
> > BOOST_UNORDERED_CONSTRUCT_FROM_TUPLE(10, boost)
> >
> > We are thinking that we need to pull in another file from 1_49, but that
> may snowball into needing more files, but we are not sure.
>
> That snowball/domino effect is a real problem. And we always prefer to
> work with off-the-shelf releases of external libraries if possible.
>
> In your case I'd try to
> - replace the missing boost type, but as [1] shows they are using some
> magic there especially for Solaris compilers
> - rebuild with system-boost 1.49
> - rebuild with system-boost 1.50
>
> [1] http://lists.boost.org/boost-commit/2012/04/40663.php
>
> If these alternatives don't work then we really need a volunteer who
> solves the build problems with the latest 1.55 version so that AOO's
> internal version can be upgraded to that.
>
> Herbert
>
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