Re: [boost] Sun-5.8 failures

From: Timo Geusch (timo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-25 01:45:41

Gennaro Prota wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 23:16:50 +0100, Timo Geusch
> <timo_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>   
>   
>> I'll have to check this but I think some of the changes that Simon 
>> Atanasyan from SUN made and published in his blog address this.
>>     
>
> Thanks for pointing me there :-) Yes, some problems are addressed, and
> are in fact supposed to be fixed since boost 1.33.1:
>
>  <http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/sga/boost_1_33_1.patch>
>
> Why they aren't is beyond me (I guess Simon posted his patch(es) here,
> otherwise the answer is obvious)
>   
I think he only posted them to his blog and no-one had the time to 
integrate them. SUN compiler support wasn't that high on the agenda and 
only very few people (including myself) had access to the SUN compilers, 
and not necessarily the latest versions either. Not to mention that the 
older compilers are a tad quirky..
>> to check but it may well be that I've got a 
>> patch for that which I'm preparing...
>>     
>
> Do you mean Simon has privately sent them to you? Well, I'll do some
> changes to the RC 1.34 branch now, so that we can perhaps see the
> effects within tomorrow. Thanks again for the tip :-)
>   
Nah, I'm trying to port his patches to 1.34 RC in what little spare time 
I have.. At the moment I'm concentrating on getting Boost.Python to 
compile (he hasn't got any patches for that) but I'm kinda waiting until 
I'm back from holiday to continue that as the latest patch set for the 
compiler should be available by then. This supposedly fixes another lot 
of compilation issues. I'm lazy :-) and I'm happy to wait that long..