Re: [boost] Boost on Sun CC without STLPort

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost on Sun CC without STLPort
From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-07 11:28:01

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> 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.
>

Interesting. It would be great if someone could run regression tests
on the "latest" version of Sun's compiler and stdlib someday soon.

> I'm away from that machine at the moment, but can look at their
> standard library implementation tomorrow morning if that would help.
>

That would definitely help. Thanks Beman!

-- 
Dean Michael Berris
deanberris.com