On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 17:56:12 +0200 Graham Inggs <gin...@debian.org> wrote: > Source: boost1.58 > Version: 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 > > Hi Maintainer > > In debian/rules it is made clear that libboost-context and > libboost-coroutine are not built for all architectures: > > # context is conditionally compiled because it is not supported yet on > several architectures > # coroutine depends on context, so it is also conditionally compiled > > In particular, these libraries are not built for the supported > architectures arm64 and s390x. > However, boost1.58 still ships empty binary packages > libboost-context1.58.0, libboost-context1.58-dev and > libboost-coroutine1.58-dev for these architectures. > > This causes FTBFS in packages that build-depend on > libboost-context-dev and liboost-coroutine-dev. Fortunately, only > kicad seems to be affected so far, see bug #807483.
I understand that the lack of Boost.Context support for certain architectures will cause software using Boost.Context to fail to build on those architectures. I don't follow how the empty binary package is involved in the FTBFS. -Steve
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