Re: [Boost-build] [filesystem] patch for path.hpp for "Duplicate symbol" problem on HP-UX and Tru64

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-19 05:55:01

On Thursday 19 April 2007 01:11, Boris Gubenko wrote:
>   On HP-UX and Tru64, when using CVS HEAD, linking of process_jam_log fails
>   because of multiply defined symbol. From ld output on HP-UX, for example:
> 
> ld: Duplicate symbol "boost::filesystem::basic_filesystem_error<boost::
> filesystem::basic_path<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,
> std::allocator<char> >,boost::filesystem::path_traits> >::what() const"
> 
>   The duplicate symbol is coming from the explicit specialization in
>   boost/filesystem/path.hpp conditionalized for anything but gcc with
>   the following comment:

Boris,
since this a patch for boost.filesystem, I think you better post it
to Boost mailing list, not Boost.Build mailing list. We don't have
the authority to approve boost.filesystem patches here.

- Volodya