Re: [openvrml-develop] Hi, I'm having some problems when building openvrml source

[Raphael S. <ra...@ir...>]

Braden McDaniel wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 10:49 +0200, Raphael Straub wrote:
>> Braden McDaniel wrote:
>>> I'll fix this stuff and release 0.18.3 this weekend.
>>
>> I found another bug that prevented me from compiling OpenVRML 0.18.2
>> on Mac OS X 10.5. I got a link error (some functions defined in
>> libboost_system were not found) because the OpenVRML libraries are  
>> not
>> explicitly linked against libboost_system. My workaround is to add "-
>> lboost_system-mt" to LDFLAGS, see the MacPorts port on <http://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/20399/patch-Portfile.diff
>>> .
>>
>> Please consider to fix this for version 0.18.3.
>
> AFAICT, the situation hasn't changed since this ticket was resolved
> wontfix:
>
>        https://trac.macports.org/ticket/18894

Oh, sorry, I forgot this ticket.

> I'm not inclined to do anything about this in OpenVRML for two  
> reasons:
[...]
>      * The change that satisfies MacPorts is incorrect for Linux,  
> which
>        means I'd have to special-case it.  My perception is that this
>        amounts to more work than just taking care of it with a patch  
> on
>        the MacPorts side.


So, the current fix will stay in the OpenVRML port until somebody  
comes up with a better solution.

Regards,
	Raphael
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