On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 07:46:35 -0700, Jeff Garland <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:23:06 -0500, Caleb Epstein wrote
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Sorry, I should have been testing this toolset earlier in the release process, but now that the official 1.32.0 is out and I've tried building it with the crufty old Sun CC, I've encountered a handful of errors and perhaps two valid warnings.
Yes, it would've been better to do this before the release -- honestly I'm suprised you've been using Sun Workshop and Boost -- I was under the impression that everyone that tried this gave up in frustration and used g++.
We're doing this where possible, but there are still some legacy applications and 3rd party APIs I support that are Solaris-only. These are dwindling by the day, but there is still the occasional need for a Solaris build, and I'd like to be able to use what Boost facilities I can on this platform.
The first is in date_time. It appears that Rogue Wave's std::locale::facet has an undocumented abstract virtual method __get_id. Attached is a patch which adds this method when building with SUNPRO_CC and RWSTD. This may be better done with some BOOST_* config macros, I'm not sure.
I'll try and take a look at this and check it in over the next few days...
I know this is a crufty toolset, but this code (at least date_time and filesystem) used to build with 1.31.0.
It would really help if we had a regression test runner for Solaris tools (hint, hint)-- that way we could see what works and what doesn't...
I'll gladly volunteer, but the process would be a very manual one. The Solaris machines to which I have access are firewalled, so I am not able to grab code from CVS regularly unless perhaps there is a regular Boost CVS "tarball" hosted via FTP or http/https. Similarly I wouldn't be able to host any web pages with the results of the build/regression tests; these would need to be pushed back to some other site again via FTP/http. Is this do-able? -- Caleb Epstein caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com