Re: [boost] Libraries failing across the board.

Subject: Re: [boost] Libraries failing across the board.
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-09 13:19:08

> On Wednesday 09 July 2014 13:01:23 John Maddock wrote:
>>> Marshall is just a few days away from being able to put out a beta release
>>> candidate. (And that is very good news!)
>>>
>>> But we still have too many libraries failing across the board on master:
>>>
>>> accumulators
>>> interprocess
>>> numeric/ublas
>>> pool
>>
>> Pool hasn't been maintained (or changed) in years.
>>
>> The failures seem to be caused by something in /boost/core/demangle.hpp,
>> so the pool lib seems to be an innocent bystander here?
>
> The failing test #defines free to a non-existing symbol, and demangle.hpp uses
> free() and this causes the failure. If free is defined as a macro on some
> platform, it must be compatible with the function call syntax, so to my mind
> the test is broken.

I've submitted a pull request - someone from the community maintenance 
team will have to apply this and the other pending fix though.

John.