Re: [boost] random library

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-13 22:06:16

At that rate we should just put the BOOST_NO_LIMITS check inside
boost/pending/limits.hpp so that our code can just #include that instead of
<limits> (c.f. boost/detail/iterator.hpp).

-Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Nuffer" <dnuffer_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: [boost] random library

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <kevin_vanhorn_at_[hidden]>
> To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 3:40 PM
> Subject: [boost] random library
>
>
> > The compiler status page for Linux claims that the random library
> > works with GCC 2.95.2.  This is not true.  GCC 2.95.2 ships with
> > a version of libstdc++ that does not include the <limits> header,
> > which <boost/random.hpp> includes.
> >
> > By the way, has anyone out there managed to make random work with
> > GCC 2.95.2 on Linux?
>
> Yep, I've got it to work.
>
> >  I tried upgrading to libstdc++-2.90.8 and then
> > libstdc++-2.91 (which do provide <limits>), but I could not
> > successfully install either of these.  Depending on what I tried,
> > either I got an error because it could not inline a function in
> > basic_string.h, or it couldn't build any of the library at all because
> > ltconfig didn't recognize the --build option.
> >
> >
>
> Attached is a patch that will fix the random library for boost 1.20.2, I
> haven't had time to update it for 1.21.1 yet.  It may or may not apply
> cleanly, it just depends how much of the random library was changed.
>
> Actually it fixes a little more than the random library, it changes all
the
> places in boost that had:
>
> #include <limits>
>
> to
>
> #ifndef BOOST_NO_LIMITS
> #include <limits>
> #else
> #include <boost/pending/limits.hpp>
> #endif
>
>
> --Dan Nuffer
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