Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.32 patches for IBM z/Series S390 Linux

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-04 16:03:52

At 12:23 PM 2/4/2005, Jonathan Biggar wrote:

 >Beman Dawes wrote:
 >>  >> Let us know if you are interested in testing Boost with your 
platform
 >>  >> on a regular basis to make the next releases more IBM-friendly.
 >>  >
 >>  >I'd love to, but in the development environment I've got, compiling
 >>  >boost 1.32 for S390 takes about 24 hours!
 >>
 >> Could you comment on that, please? Is the machine and/or compiler slow? 

 >> Are Boost libraries doing something that causes particularly slow
 >compiles?
 >
 >We don't have a S390 machine in house, so our builds are done using
 >hercules, which is a S390 emulator.

Ah! An emulator makes the 24 hour builds much more understandable.

Thanks for sending in patches for this platform. Every additional platform 
Boost code runs on is a win for programmers using that platform, and 
improves general confidence in the portability of Boost code.

--Beman