[Boost-users] Re: simple example with boost/serialization?

From: Alex Makarenko (alexei_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-18 07:15:54

Thanks Daniel, you were spot on: I did have a compiled copy of boost 1.29 in
there.

Now to the bad news: demo.cpp compiles but does not link with what looks
like a thousand symbols missing (archives and serialization stuff).

Seems like i'm missing a library, but which one? and is it supposed to come
with the debian package? (I do have all the include files.) I looked but
couldn't find a dedicated package for just the serialization library.

There're three mentions of "libboost_serialization" in the archive of this
mailing list but not a single word in the current documentation (website or
local).  Is there some chunk of documentation I'm thoroughly missing?

Thanks again, alex

Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 09:47:36 +0100
From: Daniel James <daniel_at_[hidden]>
Subject: [Boost-users] Re: simple example with boost/serialization?
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Alex Makarenko wrote:
> I am trying to use the boost serialization library but can't compile 
> even the simplest demo.
[snip]
> In file included from /usr/local/include/boost/config.hpp:35,
>                  from /usr/include/boost/serialization/utility.hpp:21,
>                  from demo.cpp:16:
> /usr/local/include/boost/config/compiler/gcc.hpp:57:7: warning: 
> #warning "Unknown compiler version - please run the configure tests 
> and report the results"

This looks wrong, boost 1.32 should know about gcc-3.3. Also,
boost/config.hpp is in /usr/local/include, but
boost/serialization/utility.hpp is in /usr/include. My guess is that you've
got an old version of boost in /usr/local/include, and the pre-built debian
packages in /usr/include

There's a bug in the debian packages which causes some files to be lost
during an upgrade to the new version, it looks like that has happened here.
If I'm right then you should remove the boost packages, remove the old
version from /usr/local and reinstall the boost packages (the bug only
affects upgrades, not installs).

Daniel