Re: [Boost-users] Where we are 1.65.0

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Where we are 1.65.0
From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-08-09 18:55:44

On 09/08/2017 17:26, Marshall Clow via Boost-users wrote:
> RC1 came out on Monday, and it had some problems.
>
> Specifically:
> * Some libraries didn't build with ToT clang/libc++  (Locale, Wave and 
> Test)
> This is because in C++17, some deprecated library features have been 
> removed.  [bind1st, mem_fun, auto_ptr, random_shuffle, etc ]

numeric/conversion also has un-merged changes in develop for this issue 
which prevents the Math lib tests building on master in C++17 mode.

>
> Boost.Config has support for these removals, but this was ... incomplete.
> [ This is on me; I did the partial job of adding these to Config's 
> libc++ support a while back ]

Merged to master as requested.

>
> Normally, I would be tempted to say "Well, clang 5 is not shipping 
> yet, and so we can put this off until 1.66.0". But both clang 5 and 
> C++17 are imminent (they will both happen well before the 1.66 
> release, and so I think we should fix this now. Also, a future version 
> of MSVC will have the same library issues.
>
> So I have committed a fix for Boost.Config that fixes the Boost.Test 
> issues.
> Hartmut has fixed most of the Boost.Wave issues.
> Artymom has a fix for Boost.Locale.
>
>     Windows/MSVC builds look good across the board.
>
>
> * Boost.Fiber fails to build on Mac OS with anything other than 
> -std=c++03.
> There is a fix in develop for this; but there's still a bunch of tests 
> failing.
>
> * There's a problem from the beta in Boost.Math.
>
>     The regression regarding boost/math/common_factor_ct.hpp (vs
>     math_fwd.hpp) seems to be still there. (For details please see the
>     original mail and replies:
>     https://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2017/07/237452.php
>     <https://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2017/07/237452.php>)
>
>
>     What I presume is the fix
>     (https://github.com/boostorg/math/pull/75
>     <https://github.com/boostorg/math/pull/75>) was
>     merged into develop about 12 hours ago, some automatic CI tests still
>     running.
>
>

I can cheery pick this if requested, I would note however, that this 
issue was in the previous release or two as well :(

Best, John.

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