boost - Migrate remaining ports to use the Boost PortGroup

[cjones051073 (Chris Jones)]

I have recently done a bit of work, migrating as many ports as I could using boost to use the boost PG. These are the remaining ports directly using the old boost port

Port	Version	Maintainers
aircraft_oap	3.0.2	none
freeling	3.1	stromnov@… stromnov,openmaintainer
glob2	0.9.4.4	ryandesign@… ryandesign,openmaintainer
libreoffice	7.1.4.2	audvare@… Tatsh,openmaintainer
lscsoft-deps	20200805	aronnax@… lpsinger,ed.maros@… emaros
openvrml	0.18.9	raphael@… raphael-st,openmaintainer
QLColorCode	4.1.0	none
simplevoc-open	1.8.0	f.celler@…,k.salewski@…,w.helisch@…
tcpflow	1.5.2	none
textmate2	2.0.6	cal@… neverpanic,openmaintainer
vcsn	2.8	akim@… akimd,openmaintainer
wesnoth	1.14.13	ryandesign@… ryandesign,openmaintainer

These all (well maybe not lscsoft-deps which I am not sure on its use) have issues that meant migrating over did not work 'out the box'. e.g. a number use the scons build system and I failed to figure out how to get that to use the isolated boostXYZ ports.

We should try and figure out for each what to do. A number don't build, maybe on all OSes, so perhaps are not used and should be retired.

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

CCing all maintainers of these ports.

[cjones051073 (Chris Jones)]

Just for reference, as it isn't exactly obvious, this is how to list ports depending on a specific port

port list depends:':boost($|\s)'

[cjones051073 (Chris Jones)]

Just submitted ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/11451 which is a proposal to make the boost{-numpy} ports into basic shim ports to a specific {default} versioned boost port.

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Replying to cjones051073:

Just submitted ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/11451 which is a proposal to make the boost{-numpy} ports into basic shim ports to a specific {default} versioned boost port.

PR merged. Thanks Chris!

[cjones051073 (Chris Jones)]

Note, for ports that are problematic to convert to using the boost PG and the isolated boostXYZ ports, sticking with the newly updated shim boost port is probably an acceptable alternative. e.g. I just tested the first in the above list, aircraft_oap, and it builds just fine against boost 1.76 using the shims.

We should though in each case rev-bump the ports to rebuild them against the newer boost.

[cjones051073 (Chris Jones)]

tcpflow, QLColorCode and aircraft_oap all have been rev-bump and build fine with 1.76.

[Tatsh (Andrew Udvare)]

libreoffice: ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/11485

[Tatsh (Andrew Udvare)]

In da0a1a5db9d5c828956171988204a054875cf83f/macports-ports (master):

libreoffice: use boost176

#63136

Set compiler.cxx_standard to 2017

[chrstphrchvz (Christopher Chavez)]

In 70e009295f9a0ccb4875080e1956a7be0cf772f7/macports-ports (master):

simplevoc-open: delete abandoned port

No point in keeping the port and designating it nomaintainer:
upstream project is gone, port is not known to build, no dependents.

Closes: #28187
See: #63136
Closes: #63986

[Gandoon (Erik Hedlund)]

Hello,

I just had an issue with libtorrent-rasterbar and qBittorrent that eventually could be traced back to the unversioned boost (see #69698). What I found was that the one thing I had that was depending on an unversioned boost was the variant vtk +xdmf. The issues I had could be solved by deactivating the unversioned boost while building the mentioned ports. It seems as if neither vtk nor the upgraded ports were impacted during this operation.

I just thought that it might be worth mentioning here as well.