Bug 283771

Summary:	Linking against boost libraries fails
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Deji Akingunola <dakingun>
Component:	boost	Assignee:	Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Deji Akingunola 2007-09-09 00:58:39 UTC

Description of problem: I'm getting the following errors while trying to link
against boost_regex.so and boost_regex-mt.so (was rebuilding a fedora package
called referencer); i guess boost needs to be rebuilt against newer icu.
...
configure:3533: checking for main in -lboost_regex-mt
configure:3562: g++ -o conftest -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
-fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic  
conftest.cpp -lboost_regex-mt   >&5
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libboost_regex-mt.so:
undefined reference to `u_isblank_3_7'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libboost_regex-mt.so:
undefined reference to `u_digit_3_7'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libboost_regex-mt.so:
undefined reference to `u_isspace_3_7'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libboost_regex-mt.so:
undefined reference to `u_charType_3_7'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libboost_regex-mt.so:
undefined reference to `u_charFromName_3_7'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libboost_regex-mt.so:
undefined reference to `u_tolower_3_7'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
...
configure:3468: checking for main in -lboost_regex
configure:3497: g++ -o conftest -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
-fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic  
conftest.cpp -lboost_regex   >&5
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libboost_regex.so:
undefined reference to `u_isblank_3_7'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libboost_regex.so:
undefined reference to `u_digit_3_7'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libboost_regex.so:
undefined reference to `u_isspace_3_7'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libboost_regex.so:
undefined reference to `u_charType_3_7'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libboost_regex.so:
undefined reference to `u_charFromName_3_7'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libboost_regex.so:
undefined reference to `u_tolower_3_7'



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Comment 1 Deji Akingunola 2007-09-15 12:17:42 UTC

Ping !!
A bug fix for referencer is being held because of this. Thanks.

Comment 2 Adrian Reber 2007-09-17 09:51:17 UTC

I have the same error trying to update source-highlight.

Comment 3 José Matos 2007-09-17 10:36:40 UTC

I had the same problem when compiling the lyx source.

I found two interesting facts :-)

First a bug in boost where boost_regex uses ICU library without linking to it.
http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1083

From there I notice that u_digit_3_7 is strangely closed to the version of 
libicu that is installed:
libicu-3.8-0.2.d02.fc8

$ grep u_digit /usr/include/unicode/*
/usr/include/unicode/uchar.h: * This is equivalent to u_digit(c, 16)>=0.
/usr/include/unicode/uchar.h:u_digit(UChar32 ch, int8_t radix);
/usr/include/unicode/uchar.h: * @see     u_digit
/usr/include/unicode/urename.h:#define u_digit u_digit_3_8

So it seems that boost needs to be rebuilt with the latest libicu.

Comment 4 José Matos 2007-09-17 14:04:40 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> 
> First a bug in boost where boost_regex uses ICU library without linking to 
it.
> http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1083

In case it was not clear I am not implying that F-8 (to be) has this problem 
but only that this lead me to the find what was the problem.

Rebuilding the source rpm fixed the problem.

Comment 5 Benjamin Kosnik 2007-09-20 00:48:01 UTC

I'm rebuilding this now. Thanks for the heads up.

Comment 6 Deji Akingunola 2007-09-20 03:58:32 UTC

I was able to rebuild referencer successfully with the re-built boost. it'll be
great though if the root cause (as noted in comment #3) could be fixed.