Re: [Boost-users] Failure while building the library with bjam

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-08 08:47:59

Michael Bradley Jr wrote:

> Hi,
> while building the boost library (trunk) we getting the following message:
> 
> compiler MS Visual Studio 2005 @ win XP SP2
> 
> any help to overcome this?

You probably could have done some homework :-)

1. Does this problem happens with 1.35? If not, why are you using trunk? If
you're using trunk, can you use binary search to identify the revision where
this stopped to work? Or did the problem appear when you've changed your project
in any way?

2. Can you analyze the failure? It appears to involve serialization library, so 
it would have helped to add

        [serialization]

prefix to email to get the attention of the relevant persons. Subject that
say "the library" without saying which library, and which mentions bjam for
whatever reason, is likely to reach wrong persons.

3. Can you teach your mail client not to wrap the error message into
incomprehensible form?

4. The code in question looks like this:

        #else  // BOOST_HAS_STDINT_H

        # include <boost/limits.hpp> // implementation artifact; not part of interface
        # include <limits.h>         // needed for limits macros

        namespace boost
        {

which seems fairly innocent. Does it look the same way for you? Can you obtain
a preprocessed version of the source file been compiled?

- Volodya