[Bug 225622] Merge Review: boost

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Summary: Merge Review: boost


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225622





------- Additional Comments From bkoz at redhat.com  2007-03-28 06:32 EST -------

1) why not use boost-jam for install?

It provides no advantage when we are doing staged builds, and also doesn't work
with prefix. In addition, it doesn't get the permissions correct. I'm not quite
sure why the permissions are incorrect in rpmlint considering they are
explicitly set by install to be the correct values. Any hacking by others in
this area would be appreciated.

2) soname

What upstream boost does with soname is dubious IMHO. In particular, boost libs
should not change SONAMES based on gcc versions if gcc versions are compat. Ie,
gcc-3.4, gcc-4.0, gcc-4.1 are compat. If using upstream boost versioning, they
are not. 

In general, there is no ABI checking in upstream boost. Fedora does not have
this luxury.

Mostly, they leave this as a decision for vendors, one of whom is Fedora. The
plan WRT Fedora is to provide some guidance for people using older boosts that
are not ABI-compat with current boost. Thus the soname bump. 

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