boost 1.47.0

[Jon Ciesla]

> Hi there,
>
> in accordance with the announced Fedora feature[1][2], we (the Boost
> maintainers) plan to rebase Boost to 1.47.0 really soon now.  Boost
> 1.47.0 has been released recently and Denis Arnaud kindly did the
> packaging, so it is ready for scratch builds, smoke testing, and related
> fun.
>
> I'll do that in the next few days and if all comes out green-ish, I'll
> push the package into Fedora 16 and write a follow-up to this e-mail
> with guidelines on overcoming the obstacles, if any.
>
> Further plans: originally, we hoped that 1.48.0 would be about out by
> now, and we would manage to get beta into Fedora 16, much like we did
> with 1.46.0 for Fedora 15.  But the Boost schedule slipped, and made any
> such plans impossible to realize[2].  At the same time, the sentiment of
> Boost upstream seems to be to (gradually) get back to the original
> schedule, so we may end up with 1.50.0 in Fedora 17.  Handling +3 bump
> might end up being more interesting than is desirable, so to alleviate
> this, we will most probably want to do at least one larger rebase
> mid-Rawhide, either to 1.48.0, or 1.49.0.  I'll write more when I know
> more.
>
> Don't hesitate to ping me on irc (_petr) with any concerns that you
> have.
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F16Boost147
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711845

Wesnoth seems not to like the new Boost all that well:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=3218720&name=build.log

Is this a common sort of error?  My Boost-fu is weak, so there might be
something obvious I'm missing.

-J

> Thanks,
> Petr Machata
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