Missing MPI support in boost

[ghweber@…]

The current current version of boost installed by MacPorts does not support Boost.MPI anymore. I rely quite heavily on Boost.MPI for my programs and assume that others do so as well. It seems that support for Boost.MPI was removed in Revision 125939 as remove compiler variants. Looking at the patch, all it does seems to be removing Boost.MPI, which seems a bit odd, particularly since one referenced ticket reports a problem trying to install boost with the openmpi variant.

[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

The compilers portgroup is changing the C++ compilers which was causing errors with libc++ vs libstdc++. I'm working on a generic fix for the compilers portgroup but don't know how fast I can put that out. :-/

[ghweber@…]

Thanks for the information. I'll see that I work around the problem until there is a generic fix. I am happy to help, but probably do not have enough insight into the way MacPorts handles compilers to be of any useful assistance.

[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

Replying to ghweber@…:

Thanks for the information. I'll see that I work around the problem until there is a generic fix. I am happy to help, but probably do not have enough insight into the way MacPorts handles compilers to be of any useful assistance.

Thanks :-) I'm writing an email now which will serve as a todo list for myself to finish this. I, too, am held back because dolfin no longer works :-(

[aaschwanden (Andy Aschwanden)]

Cc Me!

[mamoll (Mark Moll)]

Cc Me!

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

Cc Me!

[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

This should be fixed in r129986.