[debian-mysql] mysql-5.7 boost dependency

[Bjoern Boschman]

Ok, thanks.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 2:49 PM Lars Tangvald <lars.tangvald at oracle.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 10/21/2016 02:35 PM, Robie Basak wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:25:30PM +0000, Bjoern Boschman wrote:
> >> I've noticed that boost in a recent version (1.61.0.2) has hit testing
> [0].
> >> I think that it might be a good idea to use boost from system and not
> the
> >> bundled version.
> > IIRC, we expected much pain with version mismatches and build failures
> > in the future if we did this, so we deliberately didn't.
> >
> > AIUI, it is only the headers that are used anyway, so the normal central
> > shared library updating reasoning doesn't apply here.
> Yeah, MySQL 5.7 is fairly strictly tied to the version of the boost
> headers it bundles. Norvald knows the boost dependency better than me,
> but I don't think it would be a good idea to switch it.
>
> --
> Lars
>
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