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Tarball testing
by Aleksey Gurtovoy 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Dear regression runners, As we are closing in on the release, I'd like to ask everybody to switch from the release branch to tarball testing. If you are currently using "regression.py", the switch is almost trivial: 1) Download the updated "regression.py" from http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/regression.py 2) Download the archive of your choice: http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/200411020208/boost_1_32_0.tar.bz2 http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/200411020208/boost_1_32_0.tar.gz http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/200411020208/boost_1_32_0.zip 3) Place the script and the archive in the same directory (e.g. the same one you are currently using for tests on the branch) 4) Modify the script command line to include '--local' option: python regression.py --local=<archive name> [<all other options>] For example, python regression.py --local=boost_1_32_0.zip --runner=metacomm --toolsets=msvc,vc7,vc-7_1,cw-8_3 --pjl-toolset=vc-7_1 5) That's it. If you are using "collect_and_upload_logs.py", simply change '--tag=RC_1_32_0" to "--tag=boost_1_32_0". All test results will be uploaded to ftp://fx.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/boost_1_32_0/, picked up by the reporting tools, and displayed in the usual location -- http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost-regression/developer/index.html. Thank you! -- Aleksey Gurtovoy MetaCommunications Engineering

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Request for data-member smart pointer
by Oleg Fedtchenko 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

To Peter Dimov Hi, Peter Could you, please, tell if is there a smart pointer template to a class data-member. I failed to find an appropriate pointer among five ones existing in the boost. I need it for the two tasks appended. By this time, I have written an extension to intrusive_ptr to meet these needs. If you or anyone else are interested I could post it or send in person. Oleg boostoleg(a)yandex.ru Task 1) class A { public: A(){ m_wData = 0;} WORD* GetData(){ return &m_wData} A* CreateA( int nOffset){ return new A;} protected: WORD m_wData; }; main() { A aInstance; WORD* pData = aInstance.CreateA( 15)->GetData(); *pData = 57; // access violation } Task 2) class DocActiveX { protected: Tree* m_pTree; public: ~DocActiveX(){ if(m_pTree) delete m_pTree;} bool Load( const char* lpszPath); Tree* Parse(){ return m_pTree;} }; class DocDirect { protected: Tree* m_pTree; public: ~DocDirect(){ if(m_pTree) delete m_pTree;} bool Load( const char* lpszPath); Tree* Parse(){ return m_pTree;} }; class ShowExternal { public: bool Show( const Tree* pTree); }; class SomeClass { protected: Tree* m_pTree; }; void SomeClass::OnLoad() { DocActiveX* pInstance = new DocActiveX; aInstance.Load( lpszSomePath); m_pTree = aInstance.Parse(); } void SomeClass::OnShow() { ShowExternal ashow; ashow.Show( m_pTree); }

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[tuple] which version to take ?
by Patrick Kowalzick 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Dear all, I am not sure which version of tuples is actual and should be used: -The version in boost/tuple is working and seems consitent to the manual on the boost homepage. -The version in boost/spirit/fusion/sequence is working too and seems to be consistent to "C++ Standard Library Technical Report". tuple_size and tuple_element exist, which do not exist in the first version. Why are there two versions? Which one shall I use? Any recommendations? Thank you, Patrick P.S.: I have another short question, and need a small hint (what to search ;) ) for kind of a "compile time for-loop". Something like this: index[0] = fw_index::template get_index< tuples::tuple_element< 0, TTuple>::type >(); index[1] = fw_index::template get_index< tuples::tuple_element< 1, TTuple>::type >(); ...

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permission problems with latest tar
by Neal D. Becker 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

PYTHON_ROOT=/usr PYTHON_VERSION=2.3 bjam -sTOOLS=gcc stage ...patience... ...patience... ...found 5608 targets... ...updating 1283 targets... MkDir1 stage mkdir: cannot create directory `stage': Permission denied mkdir "stage" ...failed MkDir1 stage... ...skipped <directory-grist>stage/lib for lack of <directory-grist>stage... MkDir1 bin mkdir: cannot create directory `bin': Permission denied I fixed it by doing: find . -type d | xargs chmod 775

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boost::any
by Dirk Gregorius 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hi, I have a std::vector<boost::any> m_Processes containing several hydrological processes where a process is implemented like this: template<typename DerivedT> class Process { public: DerivedT& asDerived( void ) { return static_cast<DerivedT&>( *this ); } void Apply( Subbasin& subbasin ) { asDerived().Apply( subbasin ); } } Special Processes are derived from Process and pass their type as template argument ( Barton and Nackman Trick ). I am writing a simulation software for hydrological simulation and want to test if I can get a better performance when getting rid of the virtual function overhead since all types are know at compile time. I want to iterate over all elements of m_Processes in a function void AdvanceTyp( void ). The below implemention doens't work, but will show my intend: template<typename DerivedT> void Subbasin::AdvanceTime( void ) { // Call Process::Apply for each element and pass a *this for_each( m_Processes.begin(), m_Process.end(), bind2nd( mem_func_ref( Process<DerivedT>::Apply, *this ) } At the moment the compiler can't resolve the template argument. How do I have to implement the function, such that it can be resolved by the compiler? -Dirk

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Problems building PDF documentation
by Aleksey Gurtovoy 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

While building PDFs for standalone libraries (BB2 is one example) works without a glitch, we were unable to build the master "boost.pdf", due to what appears to be a problem in FOP: ... fop-nt ..\bin.v2\doc\debug\boost.pdf [INFO] FOP 0.20.4 [INFO] building formatting object tree [ERROR] property - "font-selection-strategy" is not implemented yet. [ERROR] property - "line-height-shift-adjustment" is not implemented yet. [ERROR] property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet. [INFO] [4] [INFO] [5] [INFO] [6] [INFO] [7] [INFO] [8] [INFO] [9] [INFO] [10] [INFO] [11] [INFO] [12] [ERROR] region-name 'xsl-footnote-separator' doesn't exist in the layout-master-set. [ERROR] property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet. ... [ERROR] property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet. [INFO] [17] [INFO] [18] [INFO] [19] [INFO] [20] [INFO] [21] [INFO] [22] [ERROR] java.lang.NullPointerException set JAVA_HOME=C:/WINDOWS/system32/java.exe C:/PROGRA~1/FOP-02~1.4/fop.bat ..\bin.v2\doc\debug\boost.fo ..\bin.v2\doc\debug\boost.pdf ...failed fop-nt ..\bin.v2\doc\debug\boost.pdf... ...failed updating 1 target... ...updated 32 targets... This is using: xsltproc --version xsltproc was compiled against libxml 20614, libxslt 10111 and libexslt 809 libxslt 10111 was compiled against libxml 20614 libexslt 809 was compiled against libxml 20614 DocBook XSL 1.66.1 stylesheets FOP 0.20.4/0.20.5 (identical results) on Windows. It's probably possible to get to the root of the issue by commenting out different parts of "doc/src/boost.xml" until it's buildable, but in what little time we could devote to investigating this, we didn't have much success going this route. It would be greatly appreciated if somebody could take a look at this. -- Aleksey Gurtovoy MetaCommunications Engineering

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program-options, --switch and --no-switch
by Neal D. Becker 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Any suggestion on how to implement the common gnu idiom: --switch and --no-switch? bool_switch seems perfect for implementing --switch, but what about --no-switch (which should set switch_value to false)?

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Strange Linux regressions
by Aleksey Gurtovoy 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

A number of libraries fail with various versions of GCC and Intel with the following output (e.g. http://tinyurl.com/4q93w) g++: Internal compiler error: program as got fatal signal 11 and (http://tinyurl.com/3s92x) icpcbin: error: Fatal error in /opt/intel/compiler70/ia32/bin/mcpcom, terminated by segmentation violation Martin, is this the dreadful memory problem that you've been talking about? -- Aleksey Gurtovoy MetaCommunications Engineering

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[1.32 Release] Draft tarballs are available
by Aleksey Gurtovoy 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Draft zip/tarballs for the 1.32 release are available from the following locations: http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.tar.bz2 http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.tar.gz http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.zip These are NOT the tarballs that will be released; rather, they are the first probe aiming to uncover whatever problems we are still unaware of (including problems with archives preparation), or, if there are none, to confirm that pending a few issues below, we are finally ready to release. For your convenience, the unpacked contents is also available online at http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/1_32_0_draft/. You can consider this to be a draft version of post-1.32 Boost website. KNOWN ISSUES ------------ The following is a list of known issues present in the tarballs which grant them their draft status: 1) A small number of unmarked test failures (but no regressions). 2) A small number of broken links as follows: doc/html/date_time/doxy.html: broken link: ../../../boost/date_time/dst_transition_day_generators.hpp, broken link: ../../../boost/date_time/local_time_base.hpp doc/html/date_time/posix_time.html: broken link: ../../../libs/date_time/doc/time_duration_inherit.png doc/html/libraries.html: broken link: ../boost.pdf libs/libraries.htm: broken link: ../boost.docbook, broken link: ../boost.fo, broken link: ../boost.pdf libs/numeric/conversion/doc/converter.html: broken link: udt_support.html libs/numeric/conversion/doc/converter_policies.html: broken link: udt_support.html 3) No documentation in PDF format ("boost.pdf"), due to some build issues (I'll post separate email on this). 4) Placeholder pages in place of the revoked pre-1.32 MPL documentation. If you encounter any issues that are not in the above list, please report them here! TESTING ------- To run regression tests on the archives, you need to: 1) Grab the archive for your platform from one of the above locations. 2) Grab the latest "regression.py" from http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/regression.py 3) Put the archive and "regression.py" in the same directory and invoke the latter with the following command line: python regression.py --local=<archive name> --runner=<your runner id> --toolsets=<your toolsets> [<more options as needed>] For example, python regression.py --local=boost_1_32_0.zip --runner=metacomm --toolsets=msvc,vc7,vc-7_1,cw-8_3 --pjl-toolset=vc-7_1 The results will be automatically uploaded to ftp://fx.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/boost_1_32_0/. Finally, thanks in advance to everybody who will be looking at this! -- Aleksey Gurtovoy MetaCommunications Engineering

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RE: [boost] Re: [1.32 Release] Draft tarballs are available
by Stefan Seefeld 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

> From: Aleksey Gurtovoy [mailto:agurtovoy@meta-comm.com] > Sent: November 1, 2004 10:04 > > No unix source package I ever downloaded had read-only files. > > Could our long-time unix users confirm/negate this experience? youp. > > That gives no protection, really. > > It prevents you from accidental editing/deletion. As a machine's administrator I would explicitely set the permissions (and ownership, of course) of all files, anyways. > Completely unlike it, IMO. In the above situation, it's a CVS > checkout, > you are a developer, and editing is a normal workflow. Everything is > exactly the opposite with the tarball. I don't quite agree. The 'developer' role has meaning only in a given context. Read: It's not because I shouldn't modify code in the boost repository that I shouldn't be able to mess with my copy of a release tarball. Regards, Stefan

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