Re: [boost] Call for regression test volunteers

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-09 16:17:32

Toon Knapen <toon.knapen_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Thursday 09 January 2003 14:51, Beman Dawes wrote:
>> At 04:48 AM 1/9/2003, Toon Knapen wrote:
>>  >I'm working on the port to HPUX (recently I've send a few msg's out on
>>  >this) but have trouble compiling the regression-reporting tools.
>>  >Already patched a few things in MPL but now the filesystem lib is
>>  >causing headeaches. If you and/or Jens (did previous ports to HP)
>>  >could help me out ... ?
>>
>> Toon, let me know what about the filesystem is causing problems.  It is
>> supposed to be deliberately straightforward code to minimize porting
>> problems.
>
> I know but the problem reports soth. like (I'm at home so I can't give you 
> the actual output now) "namespace nesting too deep". IMO it's not an error in 
> the fslib but I just have to find some  workaround to prevent the error from 
> occuring. I'll keep you informed.

Yeah, the abysmal error reports from that compiler make it very hard.
That's one reason I was suggesting you start with simpler libraries,
like type_traits, so you can cut the examples down until they stop
failing.

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