RE: [boost] 1.31 rc1 filesystem build problem with borland release builds

From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmutkaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-14 04:48:23

Russell Hind wrote:

> std::strcmp will fail to compile on these compilers in a 
> release build mode.  Works fine in debug mode.  The solution 
> is to just call strcmp in a release build.  This occurs in
> 
> operations_posix_windows.cpp for filesystem at lines
> 
> 234,235,271,272.
> 
> Could a work-around be provided.  I've locally changed lines 
> at 234-235 to be
> 
>            #if defined(__BORLANDC__) && (__BORLANDC__ <= 0x564) &&
> !defined(_DEBUG)
>            if ( strcmp( name, "." ) != 0
>              && strcmp( name, ".." ) != 0 )
>            #else
>            if ( std::strcmp( name, "." ) != 0
>              && std::strcmp( name, ".." ) != 0 )
>            #endif
> 
> But am unsure of the work-around syntax to use this 
> correctly.  The same work-around can be applied at 271-272 also.

I would write it as:

    using namespace std;
    if ( strcmp( name, "." ) != 0
      && strcmp( name, ".." ) != 0 )
...

This will do for all systems, regardless, if strcmp is in namespace std or
not.

Regards Hartmut