Re: [Boost-build] Would like help debugging MinGW problem

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Would like help debugging MinGW problem
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-20 11:31:39

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Vladimir Prus wrote:

(snip)

>> Is this problem something that needs to be fixed for Boost in general on
>> this platform?  If the issue is exceptions being broken without certain
>> flags, shouldn't those flags always be provided even without multiple
>> threads?
>
> I don't think so. That flag *is* MT support, so adding it for threading=single
> would be mightly confusing. It's possible, both technically and in principle,
> to force threading=multi on mingw, if folks familiar with mingw deem that
> reasonable. Can somebody comment on this?
>
> It appears that other libraries are also unhappy with mingw exceptions,
> e.g. even the simplest compiled library in boost is:
>
> 	http://tinyurl.com/y4e4krp

Should I just mark that test case as broken on all MinGW platforms, or 
wait for someone to work on a fix for it?

-- Jeremiah Willcock