[boost] Comeau MT regressions affecting Spirit

From: Giovanni Bajo (giovannibajo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-08 10:12:57

Hello,

looking at:
http://boost.sf.net/regression-logs/cs-win32_metacomm/developer_result_page.html#spirit

most of Spirit regressions with Comeau come from Boost.Thread failures.
Spirit's code already handles BOOST_HAS_THREADS correctly (skip the test if
there is no threading support) but this doesn't seem enough for Comeau. The
output is totally cryptic to me:

------------------------
Lib  output:
bin/boost/libs/thread/build/boost_thread.dll/meta-como-win32-4.3.3-vc7/debug
/threading-multi
------------------------

Now, why is the test reported to fail without even running it? How are we
supposed to handle this? Should we mark it as "expected-to-fail" on Comeau?
The point is that right now it seems that Spirit is broken while
Boost.Thread (or Comeau) actually is the root of the problem.

Thanks
-- 
Giovanni Bajo