Boost wrongly built for 'context' lib

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Fri Dec 18 16:56:57 GMT 2020


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On 12/18/2020 8:00 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> I could get a change to boost upstream that will fix it likely in the next
> release.
> 
> But that would require the cygwin boost maintainer at least to provide
> that boost lib available. Nevertheless the fix is interesting as a patch
> for previous boost versions though.
> 
> This patch:
> 
> https://github.com/boostorg/context/commit/e785657ec4d6a885ba2fd49c3ad8eaeac1f71a34

The boost maintainer has retired from Cygwin package maintenance, so nothing is 
likely to happen until a new maintainer steps forward.  Would you like to 
volunteer?  If so, start at

   https://cygwin.com/packages.html

and follow up on the cygwin-apps list if you have questions.

Ken


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