commit 7a6084665b36601c46ed761033728b0b510aca1a
author Davide Pesavento <davidepesa@gmail.com> Fri Dec 20 14:22:10 2024 -0500
committer Davide Pesavento <davidepesa@gmail.com> Fri Dec 20 14:22:10 2024 -0500
tree d620a8d39a718279326bf589029dfa94fcdb2d57
parent 2073dcec575aa9939030b9d0699691d793e2b716

build: disable WebSocket support with Boost 1.87.0 and later

The WebSocket++ library is incompatible with the recently released
Boost 1.87.0 (and presumably all future versions) and is unlikely
to be fixed any time soon.

Change-Id: Ic81f658a4f89ac3f1d9e61fca9742169f9604cb9

wscript

diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index 45f8b22..11c470e 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -130,7 +130,10 @@
                              errmsg='not found, but required for Ethernet face support. '
                                     'Specify --without-libpcap to disable Ethernet face support.')
 
-    conf.checkWebsocket()
+    # WebSocket++ is incompatible with Boost 1.87.0
+    # https://github.com/zaphoyd/websocketpp/issues/1157
+    if conf.env.BOOST_VERSION_NUMBER < 108700:
+        conf.checkWebsocket()
 
     conf.check_compiler_flags()