The latest version of boost switched to "filesystem version 3" by default which is incompatible with some old code that assumed "filesystem version 2". The patch was added to mongodb to make it use "filesystem version 2" despite boost's new default for version 3. The patch is no longer needed with mongodb 1.8.2 because it has been applied upstream.
I think there were some other ports that had similar patches added after boost was updated to the most recent version, so it seems to be a common solution to that problem. On Jul 12, 2011, at 11:01, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: > I've recently come across a port that isn't picking up on Boost's > filesystem properly. Was this seemingly related patch a solution to that > problem at the time? > > On Tue, July 12, 2011 11:49 am, [email protected] wrote: > >> Deleted: trunk/dports/databases/mongodb/files/patch-pch.h.diff >> =================================================================== >> --- trunk/dports/databases/mongodb/files/patch-pch.h.diff 2011-07-12 >> 15:26:25 UTC (rev 80418) >> +++ trunk/dports/databases/mongodb/files/patch-pch.h.diff 2011-07-12 >> 15:49:22 UTC (rev 80419) >> @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ >> ---- pch.h.orig 2011-03-16 10:33:30.000000000 -0500 >> -+++ pch.h 2011-03-27 04:21:47.000000000 -0500 >> -@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ >> - #include <boost/any.hpp> >> - #include "boost/thread/once.hpp" >> - #include <boost/archive/iterators/transform_width.hpp> >> -+#define BOOST_FILESYSTEM_VERSION 2 >> - #include <boost/filesystem/convenience.hpp> >> - #include <boost/filesystem/exception.hpp> >> - #include <boost/filesystem/operations.hpp> _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
