[pkg-boost-devel] 1.3.34 ?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:49:17PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:33:37PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > 
> > Hi again, 
> 
> hi,
> 
> > I tried my usual approach via a simple dpkg-buildpackage on my Ubuntu 6.10
> > box at work (no Debian here, I'm afraid).  It dies with the error below.
> > Bjam still frightens me, so I'm lost.  Can you think of quick fix? Something
> > I overlooked?
> 
> bjam _is_ frightening :)
> 
> try with version 1.34.0~beta1-1, it is in the archive but is not shown...
> remove bjam and boost-build packages, they are not required.

Cool, will do. Do I have to remove them, ie will they confuse the build?

> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/boost/boost_1.34.0~beta1-1.dsc
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/boost/boost_1.34.0~beta1-1.diff.gz
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/boost/boost_1.34.0~beta1.orig.tar.gz
> 
> version 1.34.0~beta1-2, which is also present, requires a recent g++-4.1
> which surely ubuntu 6.04 has not.

It does, luckily:

foo:~> g++ --version
g++ (GCC) 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Served me well since October. No issues with that.

Dirk

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