Re: [boost] Boost on Sun CC without STLPort

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost on Sun CC without STLPort
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-07 11:27:53

AMDG

On 12/7/2010 8:19 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Dean Michael Berris
> <mikhailberis_at_[hidden]>  wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Is there any specific reason why Boost isn't tested against Sun CC
>> without STLPort -- aside from the obvious reason that there's nobody
>> running the regression tests on that platform? Is it something
>> inherently wrong in Sun's standard library implementation that's
>> preventing Boost from working properly on the Sun compiler?
> Earlier in the year, I download OpenSolaris and the Sun compiler and
> got them running using VirtualBox on a Windows 7 host so I could check
> out a Boost Filesystem bug report. No problems that I can remember. I
> used whatever standard library Sun shipped with their compiler.
>
> I'm away from that machine at the moment, but can look at their
> standard library implementation tomorrow morning if that would help.

You probably used STLPort.  I think Jamroot
forces the use of STLPort.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe