Re: [boost] Regressions in your Boost libraries as of 2005-07-06

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-06 17:24:08

Doug Gregor <dgregor_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Jul 6, 2005, at 4:53 PM, David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> Doug Gregor <dgregor_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>> Those are the Martin Wille tests that are failing; the OSL tests are
>>> all passing. Martin, to run the Python tests you'll probably need to
>>> build different versions of Python for the different compilers.
>>
>> Doug, I know you've drawn that conclusion, but it really surprises me.
>> Generally speaking, I have been able to use any version of Python with
>> any compiler, provided Python was compiled with something having a
>> compatible 'C' ABI.
>
> I dunno what else to say. You're free to play around with things on our 
> Linux machine (eddie); we have various flavors of GCC 3.3 and 3.4 
> available, with Pythons compiled with those plus the system GCC 3.3.5. 
> GCC 2.95.3 (with or without STLport) works fine with the system Python 
> (compiled with the system's GCC 3.3.5), but Boost.Python tests fail to 
> run properly unless Python is recompiled with the same GCC 3.3.6 or 
> 3.4.4.

Well, I've done this numerous times on numerous machines.  I wonder
what's up with eddie?  Ralf, does this sound normal to you?

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Dave Abrahams
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