[boost] Fw: [Boost-bugs] [ boost-Support Requests-1334003 ] 100s of 'template with C linkage' errors

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-21 19:09:20

Forwarding for archival purposes :-)

Michael Hopkins wrote:
> On 21/10/05 21:44, "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> I have no access to Mac OS X, but according to this post:
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>> http://www.pixelglow.com/lists/archive/macstl-dev/2005-February/000015.html
>>
>> this might be caused by the fact that your Boost headers are in
>> /usr/include, because GCC has some heuristic that automatically
>> encloses system headers in extern "C" blocks.
>>
>> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/gcc-4.0.0/cpp/System-H
>> eaders.html
>>
>>
> Thanks for this Peter.  Putting Boost in /opt/local/include/ has
> solved the problem.  I wonder if this should be mentioned somewhere
> in the darwin Boost docs to stop other people going around the same
> loop?
>
> Michael
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