Bug#248674: Boost and pkg-config support

2011-03-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:41:04PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote: > On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 14:21:54 Roger Leigh wrote: > > For the patch I mentioned in my initial mail, this just needs building > > and running in a loop, such as (pseudocode) > > > > for (header+library name in each of boost's lib

Bug#248674: Boost and pkg-config support

2011-03-01 Thread Vladimir Prus
On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 14:21:54 Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:08:14AM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote: > > On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 10:52:35 Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:17:36AM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote: > > > > Could you brief me on what's --as-need

Bug#248674: Boost and pkg-config support

2011-03-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:08:14AM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote: > On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 10:52:35 Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:17:36AM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote: > > > Could you brief me on what's --as-needed, why is it needed, and why > > > does it break a perfect mod

Bug#248674: Boost and pkg-config support

2011-03-01 Thread Vladimir Prus
On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 10:52:35 Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:17:36AM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote: > > Could you brief me on what's --as-needed, why is it needed, and why > > does it break a perfect model of "I link to shared library foo, and > > whatever dependecies are u

Bug#248674: Boost and pkg-config support

2011-02-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:17:36AM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote: > Could you brief me on what's --as-needed, why is it needed, and why > does it break a perfect model of "I link to shared library foo, and > whatever dependecies are used automatically". The rationale (from http://wiki.debian.org/Too

Bug#248674: Boost and pkg-config support

2011-02-28 Thread Vladimir Prus
On Sunday, February 27, 2011 23:08:42 Roger Leigh wrote: > Hi Steve and Vladimir, > > I know you're both really busy, so if you haven't got time for this > right now, don't worry. However, this is becoming increasingly > important. It was previously a nice to have; with new GCCs, it's > going to

Bug#248674: Boost and pkg-config support

2011-02-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Boosters, please see the following for background: [1] https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1094 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248674 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=593876 On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 08:08:42PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > https:/

Bug#248674: Boost and pkg-config support

2011-02-27 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi Steve and Vladimir, I know you're both really busy, so if you haven't got time for this right now, don't worry. However, this is becoming increasingly important. It was previously a nice to have; with new GCCs, it's going to become rather more essential if one wishes to have any hope of prope

Bug#248674: Boost and pkg-config support

2011-02-27 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi Steve and Vladimir, I know you're both really busy, so if you haven't got time for this right now, don't worry. However, this is becoming increasingly important. It was previously a nice to have; with new GCCs, it's going to become rather more essential if one wishes to have any hope of prope