Re: [Boost-testing] Mac CW: process_jam_log failed to build

From: Stephen W. Carson (StephenC_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-20 09:29:45

Douglas Gregor wrote:

> We need to avoid statvfs.h for some Mac OS X versions anyway, because
> it isn't available on Panther (10.3.x). Granted, I don't know of any
> other way to get this information.

I'm not sure that is quite right. I believe sys/statvfs.h is part of the 
gcc 4/Tiger dev tools install. But that doesn't necessarily mean that a 
boost built with gcc 4 would not run on pre-Tiger Mac OS X. I would 
assume, in fact, that it would run. Building would be the only issue. 
That does require Xcode Tools 2+ which, in turn, require Tiger. Xcode 
Tools v2 are free but Tiger is not.

So, it looks like requiring sys/statvfs.h means pushing boost minimum 
requirements up to Mac OS X 10.4.x. Unless we can roll our own version 
of statvfs.h?

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