Re: [boost] Additional Test Configurations

Subject: Re: [boost] Additional Test Configurations
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-06-10 12:58:30

On 6/8/16 11:10 AM, John Maddock wrote:
>
>> I have problems with the current test system.  I don't know if this is
>> the place to describe them, but I posted on the test list and haven't
>> gotten any response.
>>
>> Basically I have a test failures on all gcc compilers on the develop
>> branch of the test matrix.  But I test one gcc compilers (gcc-5.1) on
>> my local evironment (MacOS) in all combinations release/debug,
>> shared/static, std=C++11/C++03 and everything passes (except of a bugs
>> in the gcc library). So I'm at a loss to determine the cause of the
>> issue and the test system is standing in my way.
>>
>
> My guess is there's an integration issue, are you testing against
> "everything else develop"?

No - I'm testing with "everything else master"  Why would this be relevant?

>
>> Another thing - all the tests on Mingw fail due to a complaint about
>> the visibility attribute set to import from the serialization DLL. Of
>> course that is exactly what we want to do! I also tried cygwin on my
>> local machine but due to issues I could never straighten out, I
>> couldn't get it to work.  I used to do this all the time but now I don't.
>>
>
> That's an error in the header - the constructor is declared imported but
> has an inline function body:
>
>     BOOST_UTF8_DECL explicit utf8_codecvt_facet(std::size_t
> no_locale_manage=0)
>         : std::codecvt<wchar_t, char, std::mbstate_t>(no_locale_manage)
>     {}   // <---- error here, can't import a definition!

I've checked in a correction for this but the relevant test hasn't 
cycled yet.

>
> I also see a whole load of linker errors which I don't understand at
> present:
>
> gcc.link.dll
> ..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\serialization\build\gcc-mingw-5.3.0s14\debug\libboost_serialization-mgw53-d-1_62.dll.a
>
> ..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\serialization\build\gcc-mingw-5.3.0s14\debug\binary_iarchive.o:
> In function
> `boost::serialization::singleton<boost::archive::detail::extra_detail::map<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>
>>::get_mutable_instance()':
> M:\data\boost\boost\libs\serialization\build/../../../boost/serialization/singleton.hpp:131:
> undefined reference to
> `__imp__ZN5boost13serialization16singleton_module9is_lockedEv'
> ..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\serialization\build\gcc-mingw-5.3.0s14\debug\binary_oarchive.o:

<snip>
I'm not seeing this in any other platforms.

>
> HTH, John.
>
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