Re: [boost] [ublas] Patch for GCC 3.4

From: Giovanni Bajo (giovannibajo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-04 03:08:27

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Michael Stevens wrote:

> I noticed you posting a month ago and I was hoping Joerg Walter would
> answer your query. I have been helping Joerg maintain uBLAS since the
> end of last year. Sadly Joerg has been of the ublas-dev list for
> quite some time now and I have been unable to contact him. In the
> meantime I am keeping up the maintenance of the separate ublas-dev
> CVS.

> However I do not have Boost CVS commit access so I am unable to
> propagate these changes. The ublas-dev CVS has a couple of rather
> recent changes which need further testing before reaching Boost.
> However the GCC 3.4 problem I think is important enough that it
> should be fixed now.

> I therefore want to ask you the favour of committing the attached
> patch. This fixes all the missing typename's which occur in several
> files. It also adds test7 to the regression tests. This shows up a
> bug in VC7.1 which I am hoping Microsoft will address.

OK, I'm committing this patch to the CVS trunk on your behalf.

> If this goes well I would also like to ask you to add a set for
> Jamfiles for BBv2 that are now a part of ublas-dev. Would that be OK?

I do not have problems in doing this, but if you are maintaining uBLAS, I think
it is worth you to do this *officially*, and get CVS write access. Asking on
the Boost list would be a way to accomplish this.

Giovanni Bajo