Re: [Boost-build] Disabling library build on a single platform

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Disabling library build on a single platform
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-04-16 15:13:29

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:

> Le 16/04/12 19:51, Jeremiah Willcock a écrit :
>       The bug report at <URL:https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5606> suggests Boost.Graph disabling its build on Sun compilers.  How do I do that?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> is Boost.Xpressive essential to Boost.Graph?If yes, stop reading.
> 
> If not, I would expect that the parts depending on Boost.Xpresive can be 
> excluded conditionally. Couldn't this be better that forbidding Sun 
> users to use Boost.graph?

It's not essential, and is used in a header that most parts of Boost.Graph 
don't include by default.  The Sun compiler breaks on many other parts of 
Boost.Graph as well, though, so I'm not too concerned about portability to 
it (most of the Sun compiler regression test errors have nothing to do 
with Xpressive).  The IBM compiler seems to break on PropertyTree as well, 
which is used for GraphML input.  Those are the two major compilers that 
fail large parts of BGL; my opinion is just to avoid building the 
boost_graph library rather than trying to only compile those parts of it 
that aren't broken.

-- Jeremiah Willcock