Comment 4 for bug 293082

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 14:33 +0000, Tim. wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> Unfortunately I don't have confirmation... no one has tried the
> recompile. It's a fairly intensive compile requiring a couple hundred
> megs of dev packages so understandable.
>
> In the interim I've learned a bit more of what's going on. I guess the
> default in Hardy was python 2.4, and in Ibex it's 2.5? The actual
> problem is that boost 1.34.1 was only intended to be built with python
> 2.4. When built with python 2.5 (which has had the aforementioned ABI
> change), boost 1.34.1 breaks.
>
> More details on this here:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2008/02/msg00033.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2008/03/msg00033.html
>
> I googled quite a bit to see if I could find confirmation that boost
> 1.35.0 fixes this issue, but I cannot. Basically I have no idea if it
> will fix it or not. I am sort of guessing it will, but it would be nice
> to know for sure :). Is there anyone who can help me test this theory?
>

Whoever reported the problem can presumably help you.

I suggest you push the package to a PPA, and then requesting testing
from amd64 users. That will rebuild the package with the newer boost
and as such confirm whether the problem is fixed.

Thanks,

James