[Debichem-devel] Bug#731064: libpwiz: FTBFS on ia64 mips mipsel s390x

[Aurelien Jarno]

tag 731064 + patch
thanks

On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 03:53:50PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Source: libpwiz
> Version: 3.0.4624-4
> Severity: serious
> Justification: fails to build from source
> 
> Hi,
> 
> your package fails to build on some architectures, see the build logs at
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=libpwiz&ver=3.0.4624-4&suite=sid

The problem is that libpwiz sources contains boost_aux, which have been
partly integrated into recent version of boost. In the build failure
case here, the atomic version in boost is slightly different, so mixing
the two versions causes failure depending on how the atomics are
implemented on the architecture.

The patch below remove the atomic part of boost_aux, so that the one
from boost is used instead. This way of doing also means we libpwiz
will benefit from improvement from boost, especially the ones from boost
1.55 which implement atomics for all architectures, using the new gcc
atomic builtins.

With this patch libpwiz builds fine on at least amd64, s390x and mips.

diff -Nru libpwiz-3.0.4624/debian/rules libpwiz-3.0.4624/debian/rules
--- libpwiz-3.0.4624/debian/rules	2013-12-09 10:27:44.000000000 +0000
+++ libpwiz-3.0.4624/debian/rules	2013-12-29 19:24:46.000000000 +0000
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@
 	# software in a separate build directory.
 	cp -rpf autotools libraries pwiz pwiz_tools $(BUILD_DIR)
 
+	# Remove parts of boost_aux now integrated in boost
+	rm $(BUILD_DIR)/libraries/boost_aux/boost/atomic.hpp
+	rm -r $(BUILD_DIR)/libraries/boost_aux/boost/atomic
+
 	cd $(BUILD_DIR) && autotools/configure --prefix=/usr && \
 	VERBOSE=1 $(MAKE) && \
 	VERBOSE=1 DESTDIR=$(INSTALL_DIR) $(MAKE) install



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