Re: Problem building libreoffice (4.1.0~rc2-1) with recent (1.54.0-2) boost libraries

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

[ CCing the - IMHO MIA, though - clucene "maintainer" and it's co-maintainer ]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 02:14:32PM +0200, Roderich Schupp wrote:
>    FYI, just to save you some time to investigate:
> 
>    I just tried to build libreoffice with the latest (1.54.0-2) boost
>    libraries in Debian
>    (just s/1.53/1.54/ in debian/{config, rules} and here we go).
>    The build failed somewhere in the HelpCompiler component with lots of
>    error messages
>    basically caused by BOOST_NOEXCEPT not being defined.

OK. Good that the boost transition planned is going to use 1.53.. :)

>    Turns out the culprit is libclucene-dev (2.3.3.4-2):
> 
>      * BOOST_NOEXCEPT is defined in boost/config/suffix.hpp
>      * libclucene-dev (B-D of libreoffice) contains a large set of boost
>        headers
>        below /usr/include/CLucene/ext/boost
>        (including /usr/include/CLucene/ext/boost/config/suffix.hpp)
>      * worse, libclucene-dev's pkgconfig file adds -I/usr/include/CLucene/ext
>        to CFLAGS
> 
>    Now some "top level" boost headers include (over a long chain of nested
>    includes)
>    boost/config/suffix.hpp, but because of the -I/usr/include/CLucene/ext
>    they get this file
>    from there and not the "real"  boost/config/suffix.hpp from
>    libboost1.54-dev.
>    If I remove the whole /usr/include/CLucene/ext the build succeeds.
>    Note that this problem is not specific to libreoffice 4.1.0~rc2-1, applies
>    at least for 4.1.0~rc1-1, too. Also note that I see no reason why
>    libclucene-dev
>    does install these headers: no "proper" CLucene header contains any
>    "#include <boost/...>".

I've no idea either, that should proably better asked to the clucene "maintainer".

Regards,

Rene