upgrade boost to version 1.52.0

[tkluck]

There was a discussion on sage-devel a while ago about including the Boost headers [1]. As noted there, the latest version of the optional spkg polymake doesn't compile with the current boost package. The current boost package is called boost-cropped because it contains only a subset of the boost headers, because of package size.

This new package is contains all headers, which is still only a subset of the upstream tarball. The total packaged size is ~ 5M, which feels reasonable to me.

I've checked that the current version polybori-0.8.2 and the current upstream version polymake-2.12-rc3 both compile under Sage with these headers. I'm also submitting an spkg for polymake in another ticket.

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/fcxNrQqVSz0/discussion

• Apply attachment: trac-13767-sage_root-upgrade-to-boost-1.52.0.patch to the root repo.
• Replace boost-cropped spkg with http://www.infty.nl/misc/boost_cropped-1.52.0.spkg
• Apply attachment: 0001-Update-doctests-for-polybori-that-rely-on-randomness.patch to the sage-main repo.

CC: @jpflori

Component: packages: standard

Author: Timo Kluck

Reviewer: Volker Braun, François Bissey, Alexander Dreyer

Merged: sage-5.8.beta3

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/13767

[tkluck]

comment:1

Because of the file size limit on trac attachment, I've put it here:

http://www.infty.nl/misc/boost-cropped-1.52.0.spkg

[vbraun]

comment:3

The deleted patch is still in the repo:

[vbraun@laptop boost-cropped-1.52.0]$ hg st
! patches/boost-1.34.1-gcc-4.4.0-fixes.patch

Also, I take it the following in SPKG.txt is no longer true?

Merged against policy a patch that makes boost build with gcc 4.4.0. Will be obsoleted by an updated boost shortly.

[tkluck]

comment:4

Thanks for reviewing. I've removed that line from SKPG.txt, and committed my changes into the hg repo. I also renamed the package to boost_cropped (underscore instead of dash) to conform to the name-version scheme.

The current version is here:

http://www.infty.nl/misc/boost_cropped-1.52.0.spkg

[tkluck]

comment:5

I just uploaded a slightly newer version (md5sum d897d8e152623fab9f9c866ce184b501) that fixes a bash escaping error in spkg-install that I happened to notice.

[vbraun]

comment:6

+1 for underscore but don't we have to patch those as well?

[vbraun@laptop Sage]$ egrep boost-cropp sage/spkg/*
sage/spkg/install:BOOST_CROPPED=`newest_version boost-cropped`
sage/spkg/Makefile:BOOST_CROPPED=boost-cropped-1.34.1

[tkluck]

comment:7

I attached a patch doing just that. I don't know how to instruct the patchbot to apply this to sage_root, and it wouldn't work anyway since it needs the new spkg. Let me know if I can do anything more, though.

Note that the file spkg/Makefile is automatically generated, so I didn't patch it.

[vbraun]

Description changed:

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 I've checked that the current version `polybori-0.8.2` and the current upstream version `polymake-2.12-rc3` both compile under Sage with these headers. I'm also submitting an spkg for polymake in another ticket.
 
 [1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/fcxNrQqVSz0/discussion
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+* Apply trac-13767-sage_root-upgrade-to-boost-1.52.0.patch to the root repo.
+* Replace boost-cropped spkg with http://www.infty.nl/misc/boost_cropped-1.52.0.spkg

[vbraun]

Reviewer: Volker Braun

[vbraun]

comment:9

Looks good to me