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   mittorn (mittorn@masturbated.one)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 22:44:06 JST mittorn

   #boost is shit, do not use it!

   Portage says:
   * Boost.Regex is *extremely* ABI sensitive. If you get errors such as
   *
   * undefined reference to `boost::re_detail_108500::cpp_regex_traits_implementation
   * <char>::transform_primary[abi:cxx11](char const*, char const*) const'
   *
   * Then you need to recompile Boost and all its reverse dependencies
   * using the same toolchain. In general, *every* change of the C++ toolchain
   * requires a complete rebuild of the Boost-dependent ecosystem.
   *
   * See for instance https://bugs.gentoo.org/638138

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 22:46:01 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @mittorn Reminds me that I tend to mask boost but I might as well mask it in my own profile and then unmask it on the few machines where I really need it.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 23:05:32 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @mittorn Probably eating 100% of CPU for the preprocessor since IIRC distcc only does the compiling part.
     And C++, specially boost, is basically preprocessor denial of service.
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     mittorn (mittorn@masturbated.one)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 23:05:34 JST mittorn

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan I keeping boost in mask too, only unmasking when building specific packages. This does not keep me from ABI breakage, but helps reduce boost-depended packages count and prevent rebuilds
     Now i installed boost to build inkscape, just to test some features and it will be removed after, most time my gentoo installs work without boost and even without gtk3
     Also, while boost builds remotely with distcc, it's buildsystem eats 100% CPU. How???