[Boost-users] Boost iostreams and GCC 2.96

From: Robert Vinluan (rvinluan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-20 13:01:18

Hi All,

Has anyone been successful in getting the boost iostreams library to 
work under gcc 2.96?

I'm able to build the iostreams library, but I can't compile my project 
code which uses some iostreams objects.  The compiler fails with this 
line of code:

     boost::iostreams::filtering_stream<boost::iostreams::input> fstrm_in;

All I'm doing here is creating a filtering_stream object.  The compiler 
spits out lots of garbage with "instantiated from here" messages 
everywhere.  Here's a snippet of the garbage:

/home/prisms/devBuilder/hfs/custom/include/boost/type_traits/is_convertible.hpp:128: 
template instantiation depth exceeds maximum of 17 (use 
-ftemplate-depth-NN to increase the maximum) instantiating 
`boost::detail::is_convertible_basic_impl<boost::iostreams::basic_null_device<char, 
boost::iostreams::input>::category &, boost::iostreams::input>::_m_from'
/home/prisms/devBuilder/hfs/custom/include/boost/type_traits/is_convertible.hpp:128: 
   instantiated from
.......
boost::iostreams::detail::chain_base<boost::iostreams::chain<boost::iostreams::input, 
char, boost::iostreams::detail::char_traits, allocator<char> >, char, 
boost::iostreams::detail::char_traits, allocator<char>, 
boost::iostreams::input>::chain_impl]'
IMG_FileGZip.C:138:   instantiated from here
.......

IMG_FileGZip.C is my project file with line 138 being the line I 
mentioned above.

I've checked boost documentation and the boost users mailing list but 
haven't found anything mentioning iostreams being incompatible with gcc 
2.96.

I'm not sure what I can try to fix or workaround this problem.  Can 
anybody shed some light?

Many Thanks,
Rob

P.S. The same code compiles and works fine under other versions of gcc 
(i.e. 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and 4.0).

Also, if it helps, here is the command I'm using to build boost:
        bjam -sBUILD="debug <threading>multi" --with-iostreams -sNO_BZIP2=0 
install;