Its worth adding this to release notes to warn users, *even* if only maintenance changes!!


On linux opensuse 113, using gcc 4.5 boost serialisation no longer compiles.

Just including :  #include <boost/serialization/weak_ptr.hpp>  causes:

In file included from /var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr.hpp:29:0,
                 from /var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/weak_ptr.hpp:20,
                 from src/InLimit.hpp:22,
                 from src/InLimit.cpp:20:
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp: In static member function ‘static const boost::serialization::extended_type_info* boost::serialization::shared_ptr_helper<SPT>::non_polymorphic::get_object_type(U&)’:
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:108:39: error: ‘type_info_implementation’ in namespace ‘boost::serialization’ does not name a type
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:108:63: error: expected template-argument before ‘<’ token
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:108:63: error: expected ‘>’ before ‘<’ token
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:109:13: error: template argument 1 is invalid
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:109:16: error: expected ‘(’ before ‘get_const_instance’
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:109:16: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘get_const_instance’
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:109:35: error: there are no arguments to ‘get_const_instance’ that depend on a template parameter, so a declaration of ‘get_const_instance’ must be available
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:109:35: note: (if you use ‘-fpermissive’, G++ will accept your code, but allowing the use of an undeclared name is deprecated)
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp: In static member function ‘static const boost::serialization::extended_type_info* boost::serialization::shared_ptr_helper<SPT>::polymorphic::get_object_type(U&)’:
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:118:39: error: ‘type_info_implementation’ in namespace ‘boost::serialization’ does not name a type
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:118:63: error: expected template-argument before ‘<’ token
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:118:63: error: expected ‘>’ before ‘<’ token
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:119:13: error: template argument 1 is invalid
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:119:16: error: expected ‘(’ before ‘get_const_instance’
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:119:16: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘get_const_instance’
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:119:35: error: there are no arguments to ‘get_const_instance’ that depend on a template parameter, so a declaration of ‘get_const_instance’ must be available
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp: In member function ‘void boost::serialization::shared_ptr_helper<SPT>::reset(SPT<T>&, T*)’:
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:131:17: error: ‘type_info_implementation’ is not a member of ‘boost::serialization’
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:131:67: error: expected primary-expression before ‘>’ token
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_57_0_b1/boost/serialization/shared_ptr_helper.hpp:131:70: error: ‘::type’ has not been declared

Ta,

    Avi