On Wed Nov 11, 2020 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 09 2020, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <j...@wxcvbn.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 08 2020, Rafael Sadowski <raf...@sizeofvoid.org> wrote:
> >> On Sun Nov 08, 2020 at 01:46:14AM +0100, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This diff drops boost_python27 and boost_numpy27. I switched the
> >>> defaults to python3 but the boost-build .py files aren't ready for that
> >>> (using python3 -m compileall fails with syntax errors). No idea how
> >>> used/useful boost-build actually is or how maintainers want to deal with
> >>> this python2/3 mix. One possible approach would be to run 2to3 on
> >>> those files, but this doesn't catch all the py2->py3 gotchas.
> >>
> >> I also worked on it yesterday and found the same py2->py3 issue.
> >
> > So what do you think should be done? :)
> >
> > I can propose:
> > 1. keep the diff as is, it looks weird but maybe boost-build still works
> > fine
> > (no idea how to test that)
> > 2. drop the boost-build parts until a new release brings proper python3
> > support
> > 3. some hacks to make the current boost-build work with python3 (I have
> > nothing against it but I'd prefer not to care about this myself)
>
> < rsadowski> My idea would be
> [2] remove all in share/boost-build
> [4] remove the compileall.py task.
>
> I'd prefer to go with option 2, option 4 means that .pyc files can stay
> around if the user starts boost-build as root.
>
> So, shall we go ahead with this diff? If so I'll ask Antoine to slip
> this in his next bulk (per sthen@ suggestion). More tests are obviously
> welcome.
>
> I have just committed the make fake tweak, so you need to apply this on
> a fresh CVS checkout.
>
If Brad accept option 2, I would like to install the following tools
anyway. This means that the boost build system can still be used.
>
> - # boost-build:
> - ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/tools/build/src/engine/bin.*/{b2,bjam} \
> - ${PREFIX}/bin
...
> - ${INSTALL_DATA_DIR} ${PREFIX}/share/examples/boost-build
> - ${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/tools/build/example/site-config.jam \
> - ${PREFIX}/share/examples/boost-build
