[pdal] pcl and boost?

[Howard Butler]

> On Oct 25, 2024, at 6:46 PM, Greg Troxel via pdal <pdal at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
> I saw the announcement of pdal 2.8.1, and was going to update it in
> pkgsrc, but pcl is broken.  The latest pcl is 1.14.1 and it fails to
> build with boost 1.86.0.
> 
> It doesn't seem like pcl has a mailinglist.  There's a pinned bug whose
> title suggests discord and whose body suggests stack overflow :-(
> I did file a bug:
> 
>  https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/issues/6157
> 
> As pcl seems to be a key dependency of pdal, I wonder if anyone else
> here is having problems with boost 1.86.0.  (Or really, if anyone can
> build it *with*.)

A very long time ago, PCL was an optional dependency of PDAL, but that is no longer the case. Any of the significant algorithms that PDAL was using from PCL have been ported by Brad Chambers to PDAL filters.

Howard