Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:

> MySQL demands boost@1.59.0, and lying about it no longer works:
>
> sql/item_geofunc_internal.cc: In function ‘void handle_gis_exception(const char*)’:
> sql/item_geofunc_internal.cc:37:81: error: expected unqualified-id before ‘&’ token
>    catch (const boost::geometry::detail::self_get_turn_points::self_ip_exception &)
>                                                                                  ^
> [...]
>
> * gnu/packages/databases.scm (boost-for-mysql): New variable.
> (mysql)[inputs]: Use that instead of the regular boost.
> [arguments]: Remove now-unnecessary ‘patch-boost-version’ phase.

Ouch.  Boost is a *huge* library, but now that we no longer use the
MySQL package as the main MySQL library (e.g. for Qt), giving it a
different boost version seems reasonable to me.