`-static-libstdc++` with `stacktrace_from_exception` produces duplicate symbol `__cxa_allocate_exception`

[godexsoft]

I'm trying to update our project (The XRP ledger) to Boost 1.88 and I'm seeing a linker error on x86 (where stacktrace_from_exception gets enabled by default):

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/12/libstdc++.a(eh_alloc.o): in function `__cxa_allocate_exception':
(.text.__cxa_allocate_exception+0x0): multiple definition of `__cxa_allocate_exception'; /root/.conan2/p/b/boost4d02c12b1f707/p/lib/libboost_stacktrace_from_exception.a(from_exception.o):/root/.conan2/p/boost9ad4e6f6d8220/s/src/libs/stacktrace/build/../src/from_exception.cpp:248: first defined here

This only happens with -static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc options. There seems to be no easy way to disable the component through conan. I tried something like

def configure(self):
    self.options["boost"].extra_b2_flags = "boost.stacktrace.from_exception=off"

which results in

boost/1.88.0: WARN: Boost component 'stacktrace_from_exception' is missing libraries. Try building boost with '-o boost:without_stacktrace_from_exception'. (Option is not guaranteed to exist)
ERROR: boost/1.88.0: Error in package_info() method, line 2026
        raise ConanException(f"These libraries were expected to be built, but were not built: {non_built}")
        ConanException: These libraries were expected to be built, but were not built: {'boost_stacktrace_from_exception'}

Here is the real project breaking: https://github.com/XRPLF/rippled/actions/runs/16486148700/job/46611443287?pr=5570 Any help and suggestions are very welcome 🙏

[JeffGarland]

We're also seeing this on an internal project with gcc15 targeting Linux.

[godexsoft]

@JeffGarland in our case this solved the issue: https://github.com/XRPLF/rippled/pull/5264#issuecomment-3113018978 This is not a generic solution but maybe it will help you figure out how you can workaround 👍

[JeffGarland]

@godexsoft Thanks for the pointer. We were also able to work around the issue since our dependency on boost.stacktrace was 'accidental' -- that is we had a stray header include despite deprecating using some time ago. I did try to look at the source to see if I could figure out why this has become an issue, but ran out of time. Seems clearly like a macro mismatch and boost shouldn't be attempting to define those symbols.

[uilianries]

Hello! This case seems more related to the Conan recipe for Boost than this library. I would suggest moving this issue to https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/issues/