Re: [boost] [test] Compilation errors on MinGW 4.8.1

Subject: Re: [boost] [test] Compilation errors on MinGW 4.8.1
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-11 03:24:49

On Wednesday 11 June 2014 08:12:58 Jürgen Hunold wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> 
> Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2014, 22:59:56 schrieb Adam Wulkiewicz:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When I try to compile Boost.Test (develop) tests or any other tests
> 
> > using execution_monitor on MinGW-GCC 4.8.1 I get the following errors:
> Which MinGW exactly? Things are building fine here with 4.9.0 and were
> compiling with 4.8.x before I upgraded to 4.9.
> 
> > When I use MinGW-GCC 4.8.0 shipped with Qt5 everything is ok.
> 
> Qt ships MinGW-w64.
> 
> > I though I'll let you know since AFAIS this toolset isn't tested.
> 
> No, we have
> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/MinGW-w64-4-8 jc-bell.html
> 
> which was green on all tests for Boost.Test.
> 
> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/test.html
> 
> > If you decided to take a look at this and needed a guinea pig I'd be here.
> 
> Seems something is wrong with your setup and/or MinGW-Version. Seems that at
> least 4.8.0 and 4.8.2 were working correct.

There is legacy MinGW (the one that generates 32-bit binaries) and MinGW-w64. 
The problem is with the former one, I've seen it too. I think inclusion of 
fenv.h gets messed up somehow, I didn't dig much further. It's possible that 
it's a bug in MinGW.