boost compilation problems & hugin-app: which compiler to use/what to do?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 19, 2013, at 17:10, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> When trying to play with different wxWidgets dependencies I also took
> a look at hugin-app which seems to be broken.
> 
> The port has two maintainers, but p.schmiedeskamp's email bounces and
> Harry van der Wolf isn't a Mac user any more, but was willing to still
> help me a bit.
> 
> The problem is that I'm unable to get boost working (boost itself
> compiles, but hugin-app doesn't when including sources from boost).
> Below is an example of an error (it complains about deprecated use of
> signals, but that's not related: the same errors are thrown
> elsewhere).
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions for a cure for this? (Switching to
> macports-gcc-4.7 didn't help.)

Boost typically changes in backward-incompatible ways with each version. This version of hugin-app was probably developed for an earlier version of boost. See if a newer version of hugin-app exists, or if not, if the developer is at least aware of the problem.