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Re: Building boost under mingw: bjam invokes VC7?? (part IV: solu tion)
by Brewer, Christopher 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

I have found my way around the problem, though I don't understand why it works. Recap of the problem (for those joining late): attempting to build boost with bjam under msys/mingw resulted in very strange behavior. Within the msys shell, invoking the following line: bjam -sTOOL=mingw install ...resulted in bjam attempting to use the VC7 toolset. I checked the path within msys to make sure I was running the version of bjam.exe that I thought I was. Looking through the directories showed there was indeed only one copy. On a hunch, I moved it from it's present location at 'c:/msys/1.0/bin' to 'c:/msys/1.0/mingw/bin' and tried again. And suddenly bjam began using gcc. 8^0 Apparently where you run it from makes a big difference. I'm sure that an msys guru could take one look at the symptoms and say, "Of course! It's obvious to the meanest intellect!". Not being an msys guru I will just shrug my shoulders and move forward :) All is well now and Boost is building even as I type this message. Many thanks to those who replied! Best regards, Chris Brewer (Company-mandated disclaimer) This message originates from WMS Gaming Inc. It contains information which may be confidential or privileged and is intended only for the individual or entity named above. It is prohibited for anyone else to disclose, copy, distribute or use the contents of this message. All personal messages express views solely of the sender, which are not to be attributed to WMS Gaming Inc., and may not be copied or distributed without this disclaimer. If you received this message in error, please notify us immediately at (847) 785-3000.

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Re: [Boost-users] Installation of boost-sandbox
by Ross Boylan 18 Jul '04

18 Jul '04

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:56:20AM -0400, Franz Mueller wrote: > Hi, > I've heared of the ublas-binding to lapack, which sounds very good. > Thus I tried to install it, but I didn't succeed. > I got boost-sandbox using cvs. Then I went to the boost-sandbox directory > and did a bjam. > I'd be interested in hearing the answer to this too, as I've been looking in the sandbox. My impression is that it is not meant to be built as a whole. As the name implies, it's a bunch of separate projects, so I think the intent is that you pull one or more of them out and stick them in a regular boost tree. That's just a guess, and I notice that this seems awkward to do since a single project may appear in several scattered directories.

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array_traits?
by Duane Murphy 18 Jul '04

18 Jul '04

Howdy fellow boosters, Several years ago I started using array_traits. I gathered from some later discussion that this library was never meant to be part of boost. However, I really like the library and find it more useful than the array<> implementation. Point in fact, array_traits and array<> overlap but probably weren't meant to solve the same problems [1]. Is array_traits around any more? I seem to recall something more general purpose. Maybe container_traits? Is this still being actively worked on? I am planning on (finally) upgrading our use of boost to a more recent version. I'm trying to work out what to do about our use of array_traits. Maybe I'll just keep using it. ...Duane [1] The primary difference between array_traits and array<> is the "construction" of the array. array_traits in fact has no construction. It can work with any arbitrary defined C-array of objects. array<> on the other hand requires construction. For my use,the major advantage that array_traits has over array<> is that I can refer to any ordinary C- array; in particular arrays that may not be under my control. Where as array<> requires that I change the type of the object.

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Installation of boost-sandbox
by Franz Mueller 18 Jul '04

18 Jul '04

Hi, I've heared of the ublas-binding to lapack, which sounds very good. Thus I tried to install it, but I didn't succeed. I got boost-sandbox using cvs. Then I went to the boost-sandbox directory and did a bjam. But I got this: libs\numeric\blasbindings\tst\Jamfile: No such file or directory libs\numeric\blasbindings\tst\Jamfile: No such file or directory don't know how to make <@boost-sandbox!libs!numeric!bindings!amos>amos.cpp ...found 227 targets... ...updating 34 targets... ...can't find 1 target... ...can't make 5 targets... MkDir1 bin I am using Visual Studio.NET Prof. 2003. I'd love to try the ublas-bindings, so can anybody help me installing it? Anything else I have to take care of once the bindings work (e.g. link to clapack or so)? -- Franz

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Re: [Boost-users] cvs access problems SOLVED --website update
by Ross Boylan 17 Jul '04

17 Jul '04

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 06:44:28PM -0700, Jeff Garland wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:24:18 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote > > This happened to me twice: > > $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.boost- > > sandbox.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost-sandbox login Logging in to > > :pserver:anonymous@cvs.boost- > > sandbox.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/boost-sandbox CVS password: # > > I hit enter cvs [login aborted]: connect to cvs.boost- > > sandbox.sourceforge.net(66.35.250.209):2401 failed: Connection timed > > out > > > > Am I doing something wrong (like needing to open up a port in my > > firewall), or is this just a momentary sourceforge lapse? > > > > I've gotten cvs stuff from elsewhere (including other sf projects, I > > think), so I doubt it's my setup. > > Soureforge has removed the project specifc path from url. Note the > cvs.sourceforge.net instead of cvs.boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net : > > $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost-sandbox login > > Jeff Thanks, that did it. It might be good to update http://www.boost.org/more/mailing_lists.htm on the bottom, which gives the old location.

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cvs access problems
by Ross Boylan 17 Jul '04

17 Jul '04

This happened to me twice: $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost-sandbox login Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@cvs.boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/boost-sandbox CVS password: # I hit enter cvs [login aborted]: connect to cvs.boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net(66.35.250.209):2401 failed: Connection timed out Am I doing something wrong (like needing to open up a port in my firewall), or is this just a momentary sourceforge lapse? I've gotten cvs stuff from elsewhere (including other sf projects, I think), so I doubt it's my setup.

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dated link on http://www.boost.org/
by Ross Boylan 17 Jul '04

17 Jul '04

The second paragraph reads "A further goal is to establish "existing practice" and provide reference implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for eventual standardization. Ten Boost libraries will be included in the C++ Standards Committee's upcoming C++ Standard Library Technical Report as a step toward becoming part of a future C++ Standard." The hypertext link for C++ Standards Committee' is http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/. That page still exists, but redirects you to http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/. It would probably be good to change the link. Is there a better place to report this? I don't see any web site contact on the page.

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BGL transitive reduction algorithm?
by Thomas Costa 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

I've been looking at the BGL headers and documentation looking for a templated algorithm to compute the transitive reduction of a directed graph and I don't see anything. Am I missing something obvious, showing my total lack of experience in graph theory, or is this algorithm not in BGL yet?

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RE: [Boost-users] Re: shared_ptr: LWM versus atomic_count?
by Ben Hutchings 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

Russell Hind <rhind(a)mac.com> wrote: > Caleb Epstein wrote: > > > I've been perusing the source code of <boost/shared_ptr.hpp> and > > noticed that it uses the <boost/detail/shared_count.hpp> class to do > > reference counting and not <boost/detail/atomic_count.hpp> (unless > > BOOST_NO_MEMBER_TEMPLATES or BOOST_MSVC6_MEMBER_TEMPLATES are > > defined). > > > > Can anyone comment on the reasoning behind using a lightweight > > mutex-protected counter instead of an atomic counter? I'd > > think that an atomic counter would be faster, but I suspect that > > there is a good reason for protecting the count with a mutex. This > > then begs the question of why use the atomic counter in the > > situations mentioned above? > > If you look at shared_count, you'll see it has to keep track of 2 > values, strong_count and weak_count, you can't do this with 'atomic > count' so therefore it uses lwm. It isn't fundamentally necessary to have two counters, though; see <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=slrnbhbnpc.154.do-not-spam -benh%40tin.bwsint.com>.

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dupe symbols linker error with indexed_set
by Jedediah Smith 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

scbarg.obj : error LNK2005: "struct unbounded_type::boost::detail::unbounded_type & boost::indexed_sets::`anonymous namespace'::unbounded" (?unbounded@?A0x65131fae@indexed_sets@boost@@3AAUunbounded_type@detail@23@A) already defined in scbarcf.obj scbarg.obj : error LNK2005: "struct unbounded_type::boost::detail::unbounded_type boost::indexed_sets::`anonymous namespace'::unbounded_obj" (?unbounded_obj@?A0x65131fae@indexed_sets@boost@@3Uunbounded_type@detail@23@A) already defined in scbarcf.obj Compiler is VC7.1 The two modules in the error messages don't use indexed_set at all but indexed_set.hpp is included globally. It seems as if indexed_set.hpp has a definition hiding in it somewhere. Here are the two declarations that appear in my project (they are in different namespaces so m_events_t does not collide): typedef is::indexed_set< event_t, is::index_list< is::unique <is::member<event_t,eventid_t,&event_t::id> >, is::non_unique <is::member<event_t,double, &event_t::time> >, is::non_unique <is::member<event_t,hoption<notepos_t>,&event_t::notepos>, notepos_compare> > > m_events_t; typedef is::indexed_set< event_t, is::index_list< is::unique<is::member<event_t,eventid_t,&event_t::id> >, is::non_unique<is::member<event_t,double,&event_t::time> >, is::non_unique<is::member<event_t,Score::beatref_t,&event_t::beat> > > > m_events_t; -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

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