[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#943590: No longer depends on libboost-context and clang

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Jiaxun,

Am 27.10.19 um 05:46 schrieb Jiaxun Yang:
> Upstream had replaced boost::context to a built-in libcontext library in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1658249, so libboost-context in dependency
> should be dropped.

ah, thanks for the pointing. I'm not following the development of KiCad 
in these specific parts that regularly so I haven't seen this change by 
myself. And most users are not using mips* hardware. :-)

> Also, after we upgrade to GLM-0.9.9.6 in sid, GCC build is possible again, thus clang is
> no longer required too.
> 
> After drop these two dependencies, we can now trigger a success build on mips64el platform.

For now I'm feeling comfortable to stay with clang as compiler suite for 
unstable/testing and buster. We gain nothing if we switch back to gcc.

I've started a test build on a mips64el porter box and it looks good so 
far. But I'll wait until the release of 5.1.6 before pushing a new 
version to the archive. Should be not that far away.

-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert