[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#454605: Boost & gcc 4.1 (was Bug#454605: build against new icu 3.8 packages)

[Aurelien Jarno]

Pierre Habouzit a écrit :
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:21:36PM +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:55:29PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
>>
>>>   rebuilding Boost as-is would require a new Boost transition.
>> Why would that be?  gcc-4.1 and gcc-4.2 are supposed to be fully
>> ABI-compatible.
> 
>   Because boost upstream encodes all the things they use to build it in
> their soname or whatever, making it ABI incompatible ? And I'm sure
> they're proud of it to boo(s)t.
> 

It looks like boost is making a contest with apt. But apt wins, because
it also encodes the glibc version in the soname.


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