[odb-users] ODB installed from .rpm on Fedora 16 does not function correctly under some circumstances

[Dave Johansen]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Jeff Waller <truthset at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem, i suspect, is that the odb that comes packaged in the rpm is
> built using
> gcc 4.7.  There is a well known problem with gcc 4.7 and versions of boost
> prior
> to version 1.48 (Fedora 16 has version 1.47).  This causes the build to
> incorrectly
> detect that boost pthread support is not present.  This is not a problem
> normally
> on Fedora 16 because it uses only gcc version 4.6.
>
> Described here http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/Q0J4VPR2FTfT6AgrVoyM
>
> if compiled from source, odb functions perfectly fine.
>

I'm working on packaging ODB for Fedora/RHEL and it's taken longer than I
had hoped, but is getting close, so hopefully once that's done ODB will be
available from the standard Fedora/EPEL repos and should work using the
standard yum install processes.