Re: [boost] [predef] The predef-check functionality is not working on the Android regression tests

Subject: Re: [boost] [predef] The predef-check functionality is not working on the Android regression tests
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-07-15 19:56:46

On 7/13/2015 7:43 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:35 AM, Dmitry Moskalchuk <dm_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> On 13/07/15 06:00, Edward Diener wrote:
>>> In all other environments predef-check is working. Maybe this failure
>>> of predef-check somehow occurs because the Android tests are a
>>> cross-compile, being done on a Unix system but targeting the Android.
>>> But for whatever reason the inability of getting predef-check to work
>>> keeps my VMD tests from adding the '-std=c++0x' option and the VMD
>>> tests all fail without that option since the variadic macro support in
>>> VMD for gcc needs C++11 support or better.
>>
>> Edward,
>>
>> As Rene said earlier, this is bug related to cross-compiling nature of
>> Android targets.
>>
>> As a temporary workaround for this, I can modify our testing scripts to
>> enforce passing "-std=c++0x" when building VMD tests. This is not good
>> solution and clearly should not stay there for long time, but I can do
>> it if for some reason you can't wait when it will be fixed in proper
>> way. Just let me know.
>>
>
> Edward could also just add <target-os>android:<cxxflags>-std=c++0x to the
> tests (or something equivalent).

That worked ! It's a temporary fix until you get back and see if predef 
can be fixed for the cross-compile problem.