[boost] A question to release manager. Was: [typeof] please make native tests expected failures on HP-UX

From: Arkadiy Vertleyb (vertleyb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-17 22:32:36

"Boris Gubenko" <Boris.Gubenko_at_[hidden]> wrote

>   The issue is that, like other compilers, including such EDG-based
>   compilers as como-4_3_3-vc7_1 and cxx on Tru64, the HP-UX aCC6 compiler
>   does not support typeof keyword in default mode (both cxx and aCC6
>   support it in Gnu dialect mode). For toolsets using compilers that do
not
>   support typeof keyword, the "*_native" group of typeof library tests is
>   marked expected failure (there are some 19 tests in this group). The
>   patch below adds "acc" to the list of these toolsets. Please, apply it
>   to CVS HEAD and the RC branch.

This is a simple change in explicit-failures-markup.xml.  The question is,
should we (are we allowed to at this point) apply a change that is not
related to a release compiler?

Regards,
Arkadiy