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[Joseph Chen <joseph.chen59@xxxxxxxxx>]

For Linux, Boost 1.59 seems working fine, at least for me for over a 
month now.  I've been using Boost 1.59 compiled from the source on my 
Ubuntu 15.04, and Kicad's been building and running OK for a while with me.

--JC

On 10/19/2015 08:45 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Boost 1.59 was just release for MSYS2/MinGW.  KiCad will fail to build
> the github plugin.  It appears there were some changes in Boost 1.59
> that break avhttp.  I confirmed this by building their samples which
> also fail with the same error.  I have filed a bug report with the
> avhttp project but I don't know how much help we are going to get.
> There hasn't been much activity in the avhttp project recently.  I'm not
> sure what the status is for linux and osx builds but I'm guessing that
> since it's a winapi issue that they will not be affected.  If you are
> using msys2/mingw, do not upgrade to boost 1.59.  If like me you already
> have, you should downgrade to 1.57 and use pacman pin boost to prevent
> it from upgrading until this issue is resolved.  Package builders will
> need to be fixed accordingly.  If anyone has time to look at this, any
> help would be appreciated.
>
> FYI, boost 1.59 finally has include gas files for compiling the context
> library on windows using the gnu assembler so the large patches we
> provide at some point will not be required.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
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