Re: [boost] Ideas Wanted: How best to configure Boost.TR1 with GCC?

From: Joaquín Mª López Muñoz (joaquin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-07 08:47:07

John Maddock ha escrito:

> Folks, I have a configuration problem I don't know how to solve, so I'm
> soliciting for ideas.

[...]

> So... in response to a bug-report I recently changed it to method 2 (on
> Linux anyway), using the same configuration logic as STLport to determine
> what "some_directory" is called.  Having tested it locally with several gcc
> versions on Linux everything seemed fine... except it's not: the problem is
> that gcc has a configuration option that lets you change the name of the
> directory the headers go in, and several Linux distro's change it from the
> default, so instead of being the normal default of something like "4.2.0"
> it's g++-v4 or something else that we can't automatically deduce :-(
>
> Obviously I could add a user-config macro for this purpose, but it's all a
> real pain basically :-(
>
> Anyone any better ideas?  Or should I give up before I loose the will to
> live ! ;-)

Have you asked at the STLport developers list
(http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=490892 )? They have
long tackled the same problem and their expertise can help.

Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo