Re: [boost] Type traits on Digital Mars

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-23 06:02:45

> The attached patch improves the type traits library on Digital Mars.
> Mostly it just selects the correct code to be used, the only new code is
> a new version of boost::is_convertible. Using '...' to overload the
> conversion check works really badly, so I experimented with different
> ways of trying to get it to select the right overload, and found one
> that mostly works. You can see it in the patch. Also, when using static
> cosnt values it can sometimes cause '_m_from' to get instantiated -
> causing a link error. To work round this, it uses enums.
>
> With this patch applied there are still the following problems:

Those all look fine and I'll apply them, however I've never been able to get
dmc working with bjam, for example I see:

...found 42 targets...
...updating 4 targets...
dmc-C++-action
..\..\..\bin\boost\libs\config\test\config_info.test\dmc\debug\th
reading-multi\config_info.obj
'-cpp' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

     -cpp -c  -g -S -o+none -Ae -Ar -ND  -I"..\..\..\bin\boost\libs\config\t
est"
  -I"c:\data\boost\develop\boost"  -o"..\..\..\bin\boost\libs\config\test\co
nfig
_info.test\dmc\debug\threading-multi\config_info.obj"
"..\..\..\libs\config\tes
t\config_info.cpp"

...failed dmc-C++-action
..\..\..\bin\boost\libs\config\test\config_info.test\dm
c\debug\threading-multi\config_info.obj...
...skipped
<@boost!libs!config!test\config_info.test\dmc\debug\threading-multi>c
onfig_info.exe for lack of
<@boost!libs!config!test\config_info.test\dmc\debug\t
hreading-multi>config_info.obj...
...skipped
<@boost!libs!config!test\config_info.test\dmc\debug\threading-multi>c
onfig_info.run for lack of
<@boost!libs!config!test\config_info.test\dmc\debug\t
hreading-multi>config_info.exe...
...failed updating 1 target...
...skipped 3 targets...

Any ideas?

Thanks,

John.