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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-19 16:15:44


on Tue Feb 20 2007, "John Maddock" <john-AT-johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote:

> Some of the regex 1.34 failures on cygwin are caused by cygwin dll builds
> not being especially reliable :-( The failures are cleared by marking the
> regex lib as static only on that platform - given that the sporadic problems
> occur inside the shared std lib, I think this is the only thing to do when
> using std::locale extensively.
>
> I've added:
>
> <toolset>gcc-cygwin:<link>static
>
> To the regex build requirements, which fixes things locally, but apparently
> not with the "gcc-cygwin-3.4.4" toolset used for regression testing. Is
> there any way to mark these up so all gcc-cygwin* toolsets behave the same?

I don't know if it will work, but you could try

  <toolset>gcc/<toolset-gcc:flavor>cygwin:<link>static

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Dave Abrahams
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