[boost] [filesystem] operations failues on gcc-3_4_4-cygwin

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-17 20:46:05

I inadvertently upgraded my cygwin installation this morning to what 
__VERSION__  reports as "3.4.4 (cygming special) (gdc 0.12, using dmd 
0.125)".

The good news is that two freshly added dll tests which had been failing 
under gcc/cygwin 3.3.3 pass under 3.4.4.

The bad news is that even though operations_test_dll is passing, statically 
linked operations_test fails.

The reason for the static link failures is that the Windows function 
::GetLastError() is returning 0 after several critical functions return 
error indications. I'm guessing from the "cygming" name that mingw is being 
used, and is the cause of the problem. Why the same problem doesn't appear 
when dynamically linking is unclear to me.

My initial reaction is just to note the problem in the docs and move on. It 
seems to close to release to try  workarounds, which would have to be very 
carefully done.

Any other ideas?

--Beman