[boost] Re: RC_1_30_0 still broken -- More lexical_cast

From: Kevlin Henney (kevlin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-19 04:08:51

In article <166801c2eda3$e80662e0$8d6c6f50_at_pc>, Terje Slettebø
<tslettebo_at_[hidden]> writes
>>From: "Kevlin Henney" <kevlin_at_[hidden]>
>>
>> In other words, lexical_cast will work if the instructions in the config
>> file are followed. According to the config file anyone running 2.95 is
>> in effect on their own. Terje's changes should be applied: any remaining
>> g++ 2.95 problems would then be down to local config and rather than
>> lexical_cast.hpp to address.
>
>Also, John's suggestion (incorporated in the posted version) means that it
>doesn't rely on BOOST_NO_STRINGSTREAM being set, to work on g++ 2.95.

It all depends on which variant of 2.95 you are running with: I believe
that John's suggestion works for 2.95.3 but not for 2.95.2. However,
2.95.2 was not supported correctly out of the box under previous Boost
releases, so this makes little difference in terms of compatibility :->

Kevlin
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