On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 10:25:56PM -0700, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
I don't want to turn this into an argument; I only asked if there is an official Boost policy on the subject. Is there a requirement that boost compiles with -Wall without warnings on all compilers?
I don't know if there is a formal policy, but I know a couple of years ago boost wasn't clean for compiling with -Wall. In the meantime, someone must have worked pretty hard to eliminate all the warnings. It would be nice if that investment could be preserved. When developing new
Right, warning free code is a good idea. Nevertheless one should specify Boost include path via -isystem path/to/boost and not via -I path/to/boost if one doesn't want to see the warnings in system libraries with gcc. Jens