Re: [boost] [test] Failing to build on Sun

From: Simon Atanasyan (atanasyan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-01 08:08:16

On 11/1/07, John Maddock <john_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Now that the Sun regression tests have started up again (with thanks to Noel
> Belcourt and Sandia), Boost.Test is failing to build on that platform: see
> http://tinyurl.com/ywm486 for an example but there are probably other errors
> as well.
>
> I wonder if this is as simple as missing the correct includes?  Certainly to
> use ::perror you would need <stdio.h> rather than <cstdio> (as the latter
> only defines std::perror).  I wonder if this is the cause of not finding
> snprintf as well?

You are right. To use snprintf you have to include <stdio.h>. Current
C++ standard does not require to put snprintf into the std namespace
so Sun C++ does not do that.

-- 
Simon Atanasyan