Re: [boost] Call for regression test volunteers

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-09 20:52:34

At 03:29 PM 1/9/2003, Rene Rivera wrote:

 >Speaking of that... What are the requirements for getting the filesystem
 >code to compile? I'm trying to get GCC2.95.3 on OpenBSD to compile it for
 >the regression testing.
 >
 >Is there a specific version of GCC required? Or would using STLport be
 >sufficient?

The only other Boost code Filesystem uses is a couple of the smart pointers 
plus iterator_adaptors.hpp. It normally doesn't stress a compiler at all, 
other than maybe iterator_adaptors.hpp.

If push came to shove I could remove the use of iterator_adaptors.hpp.

But I would be surprised if even older versions of GCC had problems with 
filesystem code.

The other possibility for any system having compiler problems would be to 
download a recent version of GCC. I'm about as makefile averse as anyone, 
but must say that building gcc is painless even on Windows. Presumably it 
is even easier on UNIX systems. There are also binaries available for many 
systems. That way you will have at least one decent compiler and library 
available.

--Beman