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[Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx>]

I thought I would have a go with your tap

The first time I did the brew install kicad --HEAD, it did take awhile 
(I think it was the downloading of kicad - no progress messages though). 
After the download, there was a file copy stage (seemed to be..), but 
all of the file movements were conflicted with something else on my disk 
- need to work that out.

On the second time - doing brew reinstall kicad --HEAD, your patch file 
(the boost.patch) is not finding the file it needs to patch and is failing.

Any guidance on what I might look for?

Bob G

On 01/30/2015 01:50 AM, Collin Anderson wrote:
> On newer versions of OS X (maybe only Yosemite), building fails (and 
> running a binary build on another, earlier system will crash on 
> yosemite) if boost 1.54 is used, if I recall, it was something about 
> this combo that made wxPython displeased and stop working.
>
> So I have been building using -DKICAD_SKIP_BOOST and linking to my own 
> system install of boost 1.57.  This is also the strategy I use in the 
> homebrew tap for KiCad.
>
> Thanks to the helpful replies from bleeding-edge enthusiasts on the 
> http://kicad.info forums, I discovered that this was a fatal mistake, 
> as the 'mysterious' (to me) minkowski patch was vital so boost's 
> handling of pointers doesn't make the push and shove router crash as 
> soon as you have to go around a corner.
>
> The rest of the patches have been merged with boost 1.57, so I 
> modified the download_boost cmake module to use boost 1.57 and apply 
> only the minkowski patch to it.  After that, I've been push and 
> shoving my heart out without a single issue! :D That router is 
> amazing, by the way.  I had to stop and route half a board I've been 
> working on before I got around to making a proper branch.
>
> I also cleaned up the mac sections a little and removed a bunch of PPC 
> binary checks that are no longer needed (The last version of OS X to 
> support PPC architectures was 10.5).
>
> This change is only if the APPLE flag is set, it is isolated from the 
> other platforms.  Oh, and it's agnostic to and works for an all libc++ 
> or all libstdc++ build of wxpython and boost (10.7-10.8 use libstdc++, 
> while 10.9+ uses libc++ I believe).  I've made a branch 
> (~metacollin/kicad/boosting_boost) and merge request, but if anyone 
> has issue with this, let me know and I'll do what is needed to address 
> it.  Thanks!
>
> --
> "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov
>
>
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