How to use/install an old version of boost package

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Hello! I try to compile this application:
Morris

The compiler complains about a missing file boost/signals.hpp:

[roland@portable morris-0.2]$ make
make all-recursive
make[1]: on entre dans le répertoire «/home/roland/Documents/sources/morris-0.2*»
Making all in src
make[2]: on entre dans le répertoire «/home/roland/Documents/sources/morris-0.2/src*»
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I… -DLOCALEDIR="/usr/local/share/locale" -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -pthread -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -pthread -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -pthread -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -g -O2 -MT morris.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/morris.Tpo -c -o morris.o morris.cc
Dans le fichier inclus depuis boardgui.hh:24,
depuis appgui.hh:23,
depuis gtk_appgui_interface.hh:23,
depuis gtk_appgui.hh:22,
depuis morris.cc:20:
control.hh:24:10: erreur fatale: boost/signals.hpp*: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
24 | #include <boost/signals.hpp>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminée.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:370 : morris.o] Erreur 1
make[2]: on quitte le répertoire «/home/roland/Documents/sources/morris-0.2/src*»
make[1]: *** [Makefile:387 : all-recursive] Erreur 1
make[1]: on quitte le répertoire «/home/roland/Documents/sources/morris-0.2*»
make: *** [Makefile:285 : all] Erreur 2
[roland@portable morris-0.2]$

It seems that I should install or use an old version of boost (1.67 or 1.68), but I don’t know how to do that.

Could you tell me what to do?

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Maybe if you can find an old package or source for what you want.
But that morris software hasnt been updated since 2009…

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Thank you for your answer.
I found this:
https://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_67_0.html
But I don’t know what to do with it.

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Or do you think it would be a better idea to try to update the source code itself, and to replace signals.hpp with signals2.hpp?

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Thats one way. Its possible it works.
An even easier way is probably to create a symlink from where signals.hpp should be.

…though I am currently checking if boost171 will work, as thats in the AUR.

EDIT - no it doesnt … but 1.69 is in the AUR too… checking for you :wink:

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OK … none of that seemed workable. Looks like you might need to build 1.67 from source if it provides the lib.
(1.69 did not … and symlink didnt work)

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I’ll take a look but I don’t make promise

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I’ve got it, I have used the Debian patches

Complete list of command to get it

 sudo pacman -Syyu git base-devel --needed
 git clone https://github.com/FabioLolix/PKGBUILD-AUR_fix
 cd PKGBUILD-AUR_fix/m/morris
 makepkg -scCi

I have emaild the AUR maintainer with the fixes

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It works perfectly. Morris is now installed. Thank you!

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