Re: [boost] Sun-5.8 failures

From: Simon Atanasyan (Simon.Atanasyan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-08 02:13:35

John Maddock wrote:
> If you have a chance to look at the TR1 library failures that would be a big 
> help.  Almost all the failures all appear to be caused by the appropriate 
> header files not getting included.  The situation here is somewhat different 
> to normal, because we're trying to replace existing std lib header files, so 
> that
> 
> #include <memory>
> 
> includes the Boost.TR1 version of <memory> which forwards on the real 
> version as well as including it's own extra parts. However, for some reason 
> the Boost versions of these headers appear not to be being picked up.

The root of this problem is a surprise for me. Actually to include
<memory> Sun C++ searches file named memory.SUNWCCh. This file is a
symbolic link to "memory". Please don't ask me to explain the rationale
of this "feature" :-) So you can create symbolic links in the tr1
folder like memory.SUNWCCh -> memory. It should help. Meanwhile, I will
try to persuade my co-workers to implement command line option to turn off
this feature.

--
Simon