Re: [boost] [scope_exit] trunk tests fail on sun compiler

Subject: Re: [boost] [scope_exit] trunk tests fail on sun compiler
From: Stefan Teleman (stefan.teleman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-03-24 12:46:01

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:54, lcaminiti <lorcaminiti_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to get ScopeExit to work on Sun.
>
> 1) First it looked like all tests fail on this compiler:
> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/scope_exit.html
>
> 2) However, I installed Solaris Studio 12.3 on my Ubuntu 10 and it seems
> that I can compile ScopeExit just fine with the following"
>
> $ CC -I /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/ -I ../../.. -DBOOST_TYPEOF_EMULATION
> world_seq.cpp
>
> Note that:
> a) Sun does not support variadic macros so only ScopeExit sequence syntax
> will work.
> b) Sun does not support native type-of so BOOST_TYPEOF_EMULATION needs to be
> defined.
>
> Therefore, all original ScopeExit type-of emulation tests named
> `emulation_...` should compile (because they use the sequence syntax and
> define BOOST_TYPEOF_EMULATION). However, they fail... why?
>
> 3) Why when I click on the "fail" link for these tests I get no information
> on the Sun compiler's output?
>
> For example:
> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/output/Sandia-sun-boost-bin-v2-libs-scope_exit-test-emulation-test-sun-5-10-debug-address-model-64-link-static-stdlib-sun-stlport.html
>
> If I follow this link I get "Error extracting file: No matching files were
> found.". What does this mean?

Hi.

Could you please try passing:

-Qoption ccfe -features=gcc -Qoption ccfe -tmpldepth=N

on compile line, where N above is an integer greater than 64 (which is
the default) and see if this fixes the problems. I would try first
with -tmpldepth=128.

--Stefan

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