Re: [PATCH] gnu: boost: Update to 1.61.0.

[Efraim Flashner]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:11:57PM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote:
> Roel Janssen writes:
> 
> > Dear Guix,
> >
> > I don't know what the impact of the following upgrade is, but I think it
> > would be good to update Boost to the latest stable version that was
> > released on May 13th, 2016.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Roel Janssen
> >
> >>From a6409b0648352cac86a3ceb205ee183c034085f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Roel Janssen <address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:08:52 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: boost: Update to 1.61.0.
> >
> > * gnu/packages/boost.scm (boost): Update to 1.61.0.
> > ---
> >  gnu/packages/boost.scm | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/gnu/packages/boost.scm b/gnu/packages/boost.scm
> > index 8fe8c8e..ccc1f06 100644
> > --- a/gnu/packages/boost.scm
> > +++ b/gnu/packages/boost.scm
> > @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
> >  (define-public boost
> >    (package
> >      (name "boost")
> > -    (version "1.60.0")
> > +    (version "1.61.0")
> >      (source (origin
> >                (method url-fetch)
> >                (uri (string-append
> > @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
> >                      ".tar.bz2"))
> >                (sha256
> >                 (base32
> > -                "0fzx6dwqbrkd4bcd8pjv0fpapwmrxxwr8yx9g67lihlsk3zzysk8"))))
> > +                "0h5nk7pgxf7xsvvshj9qfpsfp9wx6gq9r78n3nx736pxq83bsix5"))))
> >      (build-system gnu-build-system)
> >      (inputs `(("zlib" ,zlib)))
> >      (native-inputs
> 
> It looks like an upgrade to 1.61.0 causes a build failure for MySQL:
> 
> -------------------------- BUILD OUTPUT LOG FOR MYSQL 
> --------------------------
> -- BOOST_VERSION_NUMBER is #define BOOST_VERSION 106100
> CMake Warning at cmake/boost.cmake:266 (MESSAGE):
>   Boost minor version found is 61 we need 60
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>   CMakeLists.txt:455 (INCLUDE)
> 
> 
> -- BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR /gnu/store/...fzzl-boost-1.61.0/include
> -- LOCAL_BOOST_DIR 
> -- LOCAL_BOOST_ZIP 
> -- Could not find (the correct version of) boost.
> -- MySQL currently requires boost_1_60_0
> 
> CMake Error at cmake/boost.cmake:81 (MESSAGE):
>   You can download it with -DDOWNLOAD_BOOST=1 -DWITH_BOOST=<directory>
> ------------------------ END BUILD OUTPUT LOG FOR MYSQL 
> ------------------------

I've already hacked mysql to require 1.60.0 instead of 1.59.0, its worth
checking out if changing it to require 1.61.0 works also. Unfortunately
my current machine only has 2 GB of ram and a spinning hard drive so I
can't realiably build mysql.

> 
> So I guess the impact is too large to just go for it.
> 
> Do we have a Guix command to find out which packages are dependent on
> a package (in this case Boost)?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Roel Janssen
> 

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