[MacPorts] #18894: Internal libboost dependency failure at reference time.

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#18894: Internal libboost dependency failure at reference time.
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 Reporter:  trog24@…            |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:  Port Bugs                            
Component:  ports               |     Version:  1.7.0                                
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Comment(by braden@…):

 On Linux, the linker will resolve the symbols against libboost_system
 because it sees that libboost_filesystem depends on it. I'm of the mind
 that Darwin's linker ''ought'' to be doing the same thing; whether it can
 be coaxed into doing that, I don't know.

 Would pkg-config help with this? Well, it would if the pkg-config metadata
 were written to accommodate a linker that behaves like Darwin's; it
 wouldn't necessarily help if the metadata were written with the
 expectation that the linker would behave like Linux's.

 OpenVRML leverages pkg-config extensively. Unfortunately, Boost does not.

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