Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] boost-build-native: upgrade 1.87 -> 1.89

[Gyorgy Sarvari <skandigraun@gmail.com>]

On 8/18/25 08:07, Mathieu Dubois-Briand wrote:
> On Sat Aug 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM CEST, Gyorgy Sarvari via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
>> Changelog: https://www.boost.org/releases/1.89.0/
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gyorgy Sarvari <skandigraun@gmail.com>
>> ---
> Hi Gyorgy,
>
> Thanks for your patch.
>
> It looks like this is breaking the build of kea:
>
> ERROR: kea-2.6.3-r0 do_configure: Execution of '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86-world-alt/build/build/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/kea/2.6.3/temp/run.do_configure.25537' failed with exit code 1
> ...
> | checking for Boost system library... no
> | configure: error: Linking with -lboost_system -lboost_system is not enough: please make sure libboost_system is installed in an expected location; Check config.log for details, you may be missing other libraries.
>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/17/builds/2074
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/25/builds/2231
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/6/builds/2253
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/3/builds/2288
>
> Can you fix it please?
>
> Best regards,
> Mathieu
>
>
>

Thanks for the note and the logs - maybe updating boost wasn't a good
idea from me.

Boost has switched the system module to headers-only, which makes kea
unhappy. While kea can also compile with headers only, there is a scary
warning about it causing runtime errors, in general saying it "is NOT
recommended".

kea 3.0 still tries to link with this module. I wanted to submit a bug
upstream, however unfortunately they don't accept gmail addresses for
registration. 

For now I will drop this - but maybe someone else will have better luck.