ticket #40385 - boost

[Blair Zajac]

On 09/18/2013 08:47 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> On Sep 18, 2013, at 22:35, M. Daniel Becque  wrote:
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>> I posted the bootstrap.log file to the ticket.
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> It says:
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> ld: absolute address to symbol ___stdoutp in a different linkage unit not supported in _debug_compile from /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_boost/boost/work/.tmp/compile-ryWv5U.o
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> This was also mentioned here:
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> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/39809#comment:19
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> And we've seen similar errors on PowerPC with webkit-gtk:
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> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/38891
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> And:
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> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/39052
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> Sorry, but software is becoming increasingly uncompilable on any of the old compilers shipped in Xcode on Leopard and Tiger, and clang has this issue on PowerPC, as you've discovered. Maybe you can work with the clang developers to get this clang bug resolved.

I'm thinking of adding a boost1.53 port that copies the last version of 
the boost port known to compile on PPC.

Blair