Re: [boost] metrowerks codewarrior regression failures appeared

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-20 16:48:11

At 03:59 PM 12/20/2002, Howard Hinnant wrote:
 >On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 03:21  PM, Samuel Krempp wrote:
 >
 >> Checking today's boost.format regression results, there was new
 >> failures
 >> for the metrowerks compiler.
 >> Was it recently updated ? (now 8.3)
 >>
 >> I see boost.format is not the only lib for which the codewarrior
 >> regression status changed.
 >>
 >> At least in my case, codewarrior is to blame for the new failure :
 >>
 >> #   'getloc' is not a member of class 'std::basic_stringbuf<char,
 >> std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>>'
 >>
 >> while a basic_stringbuf should inherit getloc from its basic_streambuf
 >> base.
 >>
 >> Is this a temporary problem ?  (on the codewarrior setup, or the
 >> compiler itself)
 >> Or should workaround code be written ?
 >
 >If the CodeWarrior C++ lib is linked to as a shared library, locale
 >support is turned off.  If the C++ lib is statically linked to, there
 >is 100% standard locale support.

Howard, these tests are statically linked. The Jamfile specifies static 
linking, and the result directory is runtime-link-static.

So, unless something has messed up the build process so it doesn't really 
set the right flags, that isn't the answer.

--Beman