Re: [boost] [asio] Massive regression failures

Subject: Re: [boost] [asio] Massive regression failures
From: Aparna Kumta (aparna.kumta_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-03-06 16:45:09

On 03/06/15 13:31, Beman Dawes wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Aparna Kumta<aparna.kumta_at_[hidden]>  wrote:
>> I am running the regression tests on the develop branch with Oracle Solaris
>> Studio12.4 on Solaris 11.2 OS.
>>
>> Tests for asio fail as follows:
>> ../boost/system/config.hpp", line 34: Error: #error Must not define both
>> BOOST_SYSTEM_DYN_LINK and BOOST_SYSTEM_STATIC_LINK.
>>
>> I looked at  the developer issues on
>> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/issues.html
>>
>> and see that asio tests fail similarly.
>>
>> I'm not sure what causes both BOOST_SYSTEM_DYN_LINK and
>> BOOST_SYSTEM_STATIC_LINK.
>>   to be defined on the command line.
>>
>> Any idea on how this can be fixed?
> The same symptom came up in the Boost.Test library in [test] Fix
> Boost.Build issues (#29)
>
> The relevant commit is
> https://github.com/boostorg/test/commit/e2fd5e847b568c859c91a9bc56f14ef66a99ca4a
>
> According to Jürgen Hunold comment:
>
> "I've removed the explicit linking to Boost.System and Boost.Timer as
> both dependencies are handled by Boost.Build automagically. The test
> basic_cstring_test
> [ test-btl-lib run : basic_cstring_test : boost_unit_test_framework/static ]
> requires static runtime. Unconditionally adding both libraries
> globally (for all tests) results in linking against both shared and
> static library.
> And you only need instead of to draw header dependencies."
>
> His comment is specific to Boost.Test, but if you look at the changes
> made by his commit (see link above) you can see the fix, which is very
> simple. I think Boost.Thread got bitten by a similar problem.
Thanks. I will give it a try.

Aparna

>
> HTH,
>
> --Beman
>
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