On Jul 8, 2005, at 12:14 AM, Robert Ramey wrote:
Douglas Gregor wrote:
1. The Serialization lib is failing many of its regression tests. We need to get these under control.
Summary of pending issues related to the seriaization library.
Issues I can deal with
a) msvc - serialization of exported pointers broke due to a recent change made to better handle some aspects of abstract base classes.
Okay.
b) TRU64 and CW - experiments are on-going in getting compilers instanticiate code not explicitly referenced. Due to the efforts of Rene Rivera, much progress has been made on CW but there is still a way to go.
CodeWarrior is higher priority than Tru64 for this release.
Issues that I can't deal with
a) cw- 9_5- darwin - this fails in execution of all DLL versions of the library. b) acc - looks pretty good - but all DLL versions fail
I'll mark these up as an unresearched problem with shared libraries for that compiler.
c) gcc- 2.95.3- stlport- 4.6.2- linux doesn't seem to have SPIRIT_ROOT set and pointing to a copy of spirit 1.6x. The serialization library and tests are therefore skipped resulting in white space in the table
Okay, that's fine.
d) gcc (Beman) I presume this is cygwin which doesn't support wide character i/o. If this toolset name were changed to gcc-cygwin, these tests would be skipped and results would show as white space.
It's not a release platform, so don't worry about it. Only those compilers that show up in the "release view" are important for the release.
e) como- 4_3_3- vc7_1 - There is some sort of conflict between the serialization library and the test library. The results in both instantiating code for streams which results in a linkage error. I made an inquiry to Commeau and here is the response I get:
[snip comeau response] I'm still digesting this.
Again, not a release platform, so don't worry about it.
f) RudbekAssociates results show a recent date/time but contain error message which refer to functions that are no longer in the library. I believe that something needs to be refreshed here.
This is a known issue with incremental testing; send a note to the boost-regression mailing lists asking for RudbekAssociates to clear out the old results for the Serialization lib.
g) last time I checked SunOS, DMC and vacpp failed to build the library due to failures in code outside the serialization library. Generally I have marked these compilers as not usable.
Don't worry about these, either. Doug