[boost] Re: [threads] Compilation problems on CW and others...

From: Michael Glassford (glassfordm_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-17 18:40:48

Rene Rivera wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
> 
>> Michael Glassford <glassfordm_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>
>>>>> I wish I knew why they are wrong in the first place.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Usually it happens when you tell CVS to use different line endings
>>>> than your platform uses. The most common case I've seen is when
>>>> people cross-mount a repository on Linux and Windows.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, but I'm not doing this.
>>
>>
>>
>> Are the files in question checked in as binary?
> 
> 
> They don't seem to be in CVS.
> 
> Another possibility is a mismatch between what the end-lines in the CVS 
> client are set to vs. what the editor you use produces. For example if 
> CVS is set to CR-LF and your editor is producing LF only. Many IDEs 
> handle any endline variety, but at the same time they tend to produce 
> mixed end-line files.

I'm using the VC++ 7.1 editor. Can you suggest an editor or tool on 
Windows that will detect and/or fix invalid line endings?

> In this case I think the change happened 3 weeks ago. If you look at the 
> history of libs/thread/src/condition.cpp you'll see that there is a 
> check in of version 1.19 which seems to have no differences: 
> http://tinyurl.com/653xz - That is what an end-of-line only change looks 
> like to the diff, and what the change I did last night also looks like.
> 
> Beman has a program which runs checks for this kind of stuff when he was 
> running the regressions tests: tools/inspect. Perhaps we can have 
> someone run those tests again?

I did try this, but haven't got it building yet. Judging from the report 
you made available, it doesn't tell where they are, anyway.

Mike