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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Collin,

What part of boost 1.54 is incompatible with OS X 10.10?  Are you having
trouble with Python scripting and boost?

The reason why I ask, is I have been using boost 1.54 on OS X 10.10 for
months without issue, but I haven't enabled Python on my builds yet.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Collin Anderson <metacollin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Sorry, I didn't mean to waste anyone's time with this patch, I am still
> very new to the project and still getting a feel for where things are
> heading and what is a dead end and what isn't.  Additionally, I would be
> terrified of just jumping versions  of such a key component like boost
> without a lot of testing first.  Boost 1.54 unfortunately is incompatible
> with OS 10.10, that's ultimately the motivation behind this patch.
>
> As for ripping all that crap out, that was exactly what I wanted to do
> too.  Originally, my homebrew tap had been using the KICAD_SKIP_BOOST
> option and using an actual install of regular boost 1.57, and it seemed to
> work without issue for a wide variety of machines, versions of OS X, and
> users.  Beyond that, all but one of the fixes had been pulled into 1.57.
> The missing patch curiously was simply commenting out two useless lines in
> minkowski.hpp, I assumed half out of removing warnings, and half out of
> sheer principal, lines of code with no purpose should not clutter up source
> files, in my opinion.
>
> However, I discovered, using my own as well as reports from several other
> people, that the autoroute mode in pcbnew crashes the entire .app almost
> instantly, and with total consistency.  Commenting out those useless lines
> fix this issue completely.  I'm not sure if I discovered anything, or
> simply rediscovered for myself something well known by other contributors.
> When you say next stable release, do you mean of KiCad, or of boost? If you
> mean to say that the 1.58 release of boost will incorporate the minkowski
> patch, then terrific, I can't wait for all that crap to get ripped out.  It
> proved to be a *huge* headache when making the homebrew tap, thats for sure!
>
> Or did you mean next stable release of KiCad? Sorry, I am honestly not
> sure.
>
> Assuming this was all well known to everyone, I was curious if anyone knew
> the mechanism behind the minkowski autoroute issue? My quick guess is that
> the unused variables being set equal to vital pointers in the convolve
> function is causing a compiler optimization to do something unfortunate to
> those poor pointers, and loss of whatever memory location they were
> supposed to be holding.  *shrug*
>
>
> --
> "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov
>
> > On Feb 17, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > Review: Disapprove
> >
> > After the next stable release, this patch will be lost.  I plan on
> ripping out all of the custom dependency download, patch, and build code
> from the CMake files after the next stable.  If someone needs this to build
> dependencies on their platform than it will have to be maintained as an
> external project.  The complexity it has added to the project configure and
> build has been a major source of pain.  I recommend creating a kicad-boost
> project that downloads, patches, and builds boost for the platforms that
> need it.
> > --
> >
> https://code.launchpad.net/~metacollin/kicad/boosting_boost/+merge/248085
> > You are the owner of lp:~metacollin/kicad/boosting_boost.
>
>
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