Re: [boost] [1.41.0] Release candidate 3

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.41.0] Release candidate 3
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-18 08:46:03

2009/11/18 Václav Haisman <v.haisman_at_[hidden]>

> Robert Ramey wrote, On 18.11.2009 5:20:
> > I use cygwin/gcc-4.3.2 on my windows system.  This environment doesn't
> > support a library with wide streams so wserialization doesn't get built.
> > The Bjam script should detect this and just skip bulding that library.
> > That's the way it works on my own system - but I use library_test.sh to
> > build libraries and run tests so milage may differ.  If this is a
> problem,
> > it wouldn't be detected by the release tests since non of those platforms
> > are cygwin.
>

> What Cygwin version do you use? Cygwin 1.7 does have most if not all of
> wide
> char functionality. Also, the latest GCC on Cygwin 1.7 is GCC 4.3.4.
>
>
AFAIK, Cygwin 1.7 isn't release yet, so I'm not worried about it for 1.41.0.

We do need to make sure Cygwin 1.7 gets test coverage once it ships.

Thanks,

--Beman