[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1 v2] package/boost: bump to version 1.74.0

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Wed Sep 9 20:42:38 UTC 2020



On 09/09/2020 16:59, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello Nicolas,
> 
> On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 16:27:14 +0200
> Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari at green-communications.fr> wrote:
> 
>>> We don't have any failures of boost 1.73.0 with gcc 10 in our
>>> autobuilders. Could you give more details about a specific
>>> configuration that fails to build?  
>>
>> boost::bimap is a header-only library, it cannot fail to build, only its
>> reverse dependencies may fail. the release notes⁰ also mention other
>> header-only boost libraries "and more" are affected by the non-standard
>> std::allocator usage.
>>
>> C++20 isn't the default in GCC 10 and it's highly probable that there
>> are no package in buildroot that requires both boost and C++20.
>> Especially since C++20 was finally approved this very Saturday.
>>
>> This is more about future proofing than fixing existing bugs.
>>
>> [0] https://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_74_0.html
> 
> Thanks a lot for this explanation, it now makes complete sense. I think
> we should include exactly what you have described here in the commit
> log.

 I did exactly that and applied to master, thanks!

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Thomas
> 



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