Re: [boost] compile thread(boost1.55) fail on vc7.1

Subject: Re: [boost] compile thread(boost1.55) fail on vc7.1
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-12 17:31:50

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Ion Gaztañaga <igaztanaga_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> El 12/11/2013 15:08, Marshall Clow escribió:
>
>  On Nov 11, 2013, at 11:25 PM, shada <laf163_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>  *bjam toolset=msvc-7.1 link=static threading=multi runtime-link=static
>>> --with-thread --with-chrono --with-date_time --includedir=hpp
>>> stage*>err.txt
>>>
>>
>> [ Error transcript snipped ]
>>
>> A bit from the 1.55.0 release notes:
>>
>>         Support was removed from Config for some very old versions of
>> compilers. The new minimum requirements are:
>>
>>                 • Digitial Mars 8.41
>>                 • GCC 3.3
>>                 • Intel 6.0
>>                 • Visual C++ 7.1
>>
>
> So I understand that Visual 7.1 should be supported and the report it's a
> bug.

It is in the supported list, but if you look further down, there are no
tests running against 7.1. I guess this means we'll accept bugs against it
but make no claims to its being able to run out of the box?

Tom