Re: [boost] More problems compiling regex with various compilers

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-28 14:26:04

On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 01:08 PM, John Maddock wrote:

>> The undefind reference comes from posix_api.o . I guess that
>> s_match_vtable is not used in that file.
>
> You bet it is, you would get the unresolved external if it wasn't 
> being used
> :-)
>
>>>> On MacOS X using g++ version 3.3 in addition to the linker problem I
>>>> had to make all the functions you refer to in the intiialization of
>>>> these tables public in order for the code to compile.
>>>
>>> Does that include
>>> s_match_vtable as well?
>>
>> Probably yes. I just made all functions public and it compiled - but
>> did not instantiate the tables
>
> Still weird, changing the declarations to public is not required with 
> other
> gcc3.3 versions (see the linux regression test results for example).

Then it might be fixed when Apple does the next import of the main 
branch of gcc3.3 . Let us wait with those changes until Apple releases 
the next version of the developer tools which will probably be based on 
gcc3.3

Matthias