Re: [Boost-build] boost 1.44 is this a dodgy release ?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] boost 1.44 is this a dodgy release ?
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-21 13:55:43

On Tuesday 21 September 2010 21:09:05 Avi Bahra wrote:

> Problems migrating to boost 1.44 (from boost 1.43)
> Am I right in assuming this this known bad release ?
> 
>  On Linux: serialization of date/time broken, i.e gcc 4.2.1 and gcc 4.5
> 
>      /var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_44_0/boost/date_time/posix_time/time_serialize.hpp:42:
> error: there are no arguments to ‘make_nvp’ that depend on a template
> parameter, so a declaration of ‘make_nvp’ must be available
> 
>  On Aix: boost build fails for file system, looks like new v3 filesystem broken.
> 
>      vacpp.compile.c++
> tmpBuildDir/boost/bin.v2/libs/filesystem/build/vacpp/debug/link-static/threading-multi/v3/src/operations.o
>      "./boost/filesystem/v3/path.hpp", line 476.7: 1540-0716 (S) The
> template argument "boost::iterator" does not match the template
> parameter "class Derived".
> 
> 
> If these are known issues should I just wait for boost 1.45 ?

I am afraid I don't know -- you might want to ask on boost-users about general impression
about 1.44.

> Also wondering if the release notes should say for each lib
> what compilers it was tested against.

All of Boost is tested against the same set of compilers. There must
be some link to test results with 1.44, but I don't immediately know
where.

Thanks,

--
Vladimir Prus
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