Re: [Boost-Users] MacOS.hpp and PowerPlant incompatibility

From: John Maddock (john_maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-08 06:07:52

> PowerPlant is Metrowerks application framework for Mac OS.  One of the
> changes with Codewarrior 8 was the ability to use MSL or Apple's C library
> when building mach-o targets.
>
> Apple's native headers only check if __MACH__ is defined but they will
only
> be used when __MACH__ is simply defined or is 0 so the change in the
> PowerPlant header file is benign if slightly unexpected.

OK, so I guess Metrowerks can argue that they "own" that symbol, whatever
we should fix boost's headers so that they'll cope with this (in fact I see
that Darin has done so already).

John Maddock
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