mongodb ftbfs with GCC 5 and boost 1.58

[Matthias Klose]

mongodb and juju-mongodb ftbfs with GCC 5 and boost 1.58. looks like mongodb didn't see any updates from the 2.6 branch for a year (at 2.6.10 now). just building without -Werror is not an option

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

blocks GCC 5.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This debdiff gets over the actual build failures, but it now fails here:

scons --smokedbprefix=/home/martin/ubuntu/tmp/juju-mongodb-2.4.10/debian/tmp-test smoke --use-system-snappy --use-system-pcre --use-system-boost --ssl --nostrip -j4 --allocator=tcmalloc --use-system-tcmalloc --disable-scripting
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons version: 2.3.6
python version: 2 7 10 'final' 0
Checking whether the C++ compiler works... (cached) yes
Checking for C++ header file boost/filesystem/operations.hpp... (cached) yes
Checking for C++ library boost_thread-mt... (cached) no
Checking for C++ library boost_thread... (cached) yes
Checking for C++ library boost_filesystem-mt... (cached) no
Checking for C++ library boost_filesystem... (cached) yes
Checking for C++ library boost_program_options-mt... (cached) no
Checking for C++ library boost_program_options... (cached) yes
Checking for C++ library boost_system-mt... (cached) no
Checking for C++ library boost_system... (cached) yes
Checking for C header file unistd.h... (cached) yes
Checking whether clock_gettime is declared... (cached) yes
Checking for C library rt... (cached) yes
Checking for C++ header file execinfo.h... (cached) yes
Checking whether backtrace is declared... (cached) yes
Checking whether backtrace_symbols is declared... (cached) yes
Checking whether backtrace_symbols_fd is declared... (cached) yes
Checking for C library pcap... (cached) yes
Checking for C library tcmalloc... (cached) yes
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
generate_buildinfo(["build/buildinfo.cpp"], ['\n#include <string>\n#include <boost/version.hpp>\n\n#include "mongo/util/version.h"\n\nnamespace mongo {\n const char * gitVersion() { return "%(git_version)s"; }\n const char * compiledJSEngine() { return "%(js_engine)s"; }\n const char * allocator() { return "%(allocator)s"; }\n const char * loaderFlags() { return "%(loader_flags)s"; }\n const char * compilerFlags() { return "%(compiler_flags)s"; }\n std::string sysInfo() { return "%(sys_info)s BOOST_LIB_VERSION=" BOOST_LIB_VERSION ; }\n} // namespace mongo\n'])
/usr/bin/python /home/martin/ubuntu/tmp/juju-mongodb-2.4.10/buildscripts/smoke.py --with-cleanbb --smoke-db-prefix /home/martin/ubuntu/tmp/juju-mongodb-2.4.10/debian/tmp-test test
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/martin/ubuntu/tmp/juju-mongodb-2.4.10/buildscripts/smoke.py", line 52, in <module>
    from pymongo import Connection
ImportError: cannot import name Connection
scons: *** [smoke] Error 1

Indeed this doesn't seem to work at all:

$ python -c 'from pymongo import Connection'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name Connection

>>> import pymongo
>>> dir(pymongo)
['ALL', 'ASCENDING', 'CursorType', 'DESCENDING', 'DeleteMany', 'DeleteOne', 'GEO2D', 'GEOHAYSTACK', 'GEOSPHERE', 'HASHED', 'IndexModel', 'InsertOne', 'MAX_SUPPORTED_WIRE_VERSION', 'MIN_SUPPORTED_WIRE_VERSION', 'MongoClient', 'MongoReplicaSetClient', 'OFF', 'ReadPreference', 'ReplaceOne', 'ReturnDocument', 'SLOW_ONLY', 'TEXT', 'UpdateMany', 'UpdateOne', 'WriteConcern', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '_...

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

s/Connection/MongoClient/ in buildscripts/smoke.py seems to work better, as per

  http://api.mongodb.org/python/current/tutorial.html

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/a47efdc689

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mongodb - 1:2.6.10-0ubuntu1

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mongodb (1:2.6.10-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * Fix FTBFS: (LP: #1483400)
    - Add 00git_boost_1.56.patch: Fix "std::swap" failure with current boost.
    - Add disable-warnings.patch: Don't fail to build on "unused-variable" and
      "maybe-uninitialized" warnings (new from g++ 5).

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:19:10 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package juju-mongodb - 2.4.10-0ubuntu4

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juju-mongodb (2.4.10-0ubuntu4) wily; urgency=medium

  * Fix FTBFS: (LP: #1483400)
    - Add 00git_boost_1.56.patch: Fix "std::swap" failure with current boost.
      (Backported from upstream git)
    - Add 00git_pymongo3.patch: Fix buildscripts/smoke.py for PyMongo 3.
      (Backported from upstream git)
    - Add no-unused-variable.patch: Don't fail to build on "unused-variable"
      warning.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:57:23 +0200