I am trying to build Boost.Filesystem (release 1.34) on a GNU/Linux x86_64 system with Portland Group compilers (there is no official support for this compiler).

Everything else seems to work nice and dandy, except this single error with compiling operations.cpp:

"operations.cpp", line 1247: error: a value of type "dirent64 *" cannot be  assigned to an entity of type "dirent *"
            if ( (p = ::readdir( dirp )) == 0 )
                    ^


If I comment out the following defines in operations.cpp:22 and operations.cpp:25

#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 
#define __USE_FILE_OFFSET64

the error goes away. But I doubt this is the correct way to fix this. Any ideas?


thanks
 Levent

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Server Levent Yilmaz
Mechanical Engineering
University of Pittsburgh