Le 29/09/2013 05:44, Dave Johansen a écrit :
I just noticed that the boost141 package had been previously available in Fedora, but it has since been removed ( https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5291 ). I'm not familiar with the recent changes in Boost, but is the API stable enough to support a package to build on EL 5/6 and Fedora?
Thanks,
Dave



No, you shouldn't assume that.
Some Boost libraries often break the API in subtle ways (like changing the whole exception hierarchy), or may provide different versions of the API (ie: filesystem provides only API v2 in 1.41 and since 1.50 only API v3).
You also have to check which libraries are used which may set the lower version required to build your package.

You may have to provide a newer boost in EPEL, or patch your package to compile under both versions.

H.