> I have done the same to run some tests. It appears boost.m4 is not very good
> and has trouble dealing with Boost in a separate dir, especially if there is
> also a system wide version. I have no useful advice to offer, other than
> checking whether your distribution will give you 1.34 or up and using that.
Historically, Boost C++ libraries have been very troublesome to build, and the
libraries themselves have been highly volatile in terms of interface stability
and forward / backward compatibility.
In my experience, Boost is one of the biggest obstacles in getting pdns to
build.
With that in mind, I propose to completely disengage pdns from any and all
Boost libraries in order to remove it as a dependency. As you can see for
yourself, as long as pdns depends on Boost, you will have to play constant
catch-up/fix-up or risk having no upgrade path, just because API/ABI
compatibility is science fiction for the Boost project. I call into question
Boost developers' prowess if they are unable to design libraries and interfaces
which are compatible with themselves.
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