Re: [boost] TESTERS NEEDED

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-22 11:56:38

David Abrahams wrote:
> on Sun May 20 2007, Eric Niebler <eric-AT-boost-consulting.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thomas Witt wrote:
>>> Nicola Musatti wrote:
>>>> Tim Blechmann wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> When all's said and done it's a question of defining the scope of 1.34.1 
>>>>   . In my opinion the couple of weeks Thomas wrote about are way too 
>>>> short to add other compilers to those officially supported by 1.34.x . 
>>> I don't think we'll make 4.2 a required plattform. That being said, this will be fixed.
>> I've committed the fix, but I don't have gcc 4.2 to test. (It's refusing 
>> to build for me in cygwin because of UNIX/DOS line-end woes.) 
> 
> Hm, I've never seen that.
> 
>   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-4.2 --enable-languages=c,c++
>   make
>   make install
> 
> ?

As I said, it doesn't work on cygwin for me because of line ending 
problems. It does things like "echo stage3 > stage_final", and elsewhere 
uses `stage_final`-sometag, which doesn't generate a proper identifier 
because of the \r\n at the end of the stage_final file.

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Eric Niebler
Boost Consulting
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