On 10/15/2013 12:13 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 10/15/2013 11:51 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >> On 15 October 2013 16:07, Maciej Sumiński <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 10/15/2013 03:33 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:18:19PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >> >> As Dick says, this completely breaks cross-compilation of Boost. >> >> >> Well, can't say it is a good thing... as a workaround maybe >> supplying >> precompiled (preassembled!) object for that couple of file could be >> useful, too. >> >> >> I am just wondering - don't those files included in the CERN branch >> >> (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~__cern-kicad/kicad/testing/__files/head:/common/system/ >> >> <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cern-kicad/kicad/testing/files/head:/common/system/>) >> solve the problem? If no - what is wrong with them, maybe we can >> introduce some modifications? >> I was able to build the KiCad using these files on every supported >> platform (actually the tool framework and the push and shove router >> depends on them). >> >> Regards, >> Orson >> >> >> Hi Orson, >> >> Those files are basically the patch provided on the Boost bug tracker I >> originally linked to as far as I can tell. >> >> Having read all of that conversation now I think in order to support >> boost::context in KiCad that patch is the only way we're going to get it >> to build under MinGW. Olli from the Boost project looks to have >> misunderstood the original bug report which is "Boost::Context doesn't >> build with MinGW!" - instead he's contorted it in an attempt to blame a >> problem in the MinGW linker. Binutils (and thus GNU AS) is part of >> MinGW, it's a part of the toolchain so requiring MASM is just a fallacy. > > I read the bug report as well and it makes me wonder if using Boost is > really a good idea. This kind of behavior is one of sadder comments on > open source software development. Someone offers up a solution to a > problem and person with the commit access can't deal with it for what > ever reason. Does Boost have a lead developer or development team that > can help resolve issues like this or is it every developer has their own > little fiefdom? They still haven't fixed the polygon issues JP raised > over 8 months ago and I looked at the change log for the upcoming 1.55 > release and it still is not addressed.
It is one thing not to fix a bug. It is a whole larger problem when a bug fix comes in as a patch and it is rejected. The first one is understandable, the second one is simply strange, since you have binutils in the build environment anyways. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
