Douglas Gregor wrote:
Boost Regression test failures Report time: 2006-06-22T16:53:09Z
This report lists all regression test failures on release platforms.
Detailed report: http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_34_0/developer/is...
The following platforms have a large number of failures: sun-5.8
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|algorithm/string| regex: sun-5.8* replace: vc-7_1-stlport
I had a look at this from a sun-5.8 perspective and it seems to me that the SUN failures are more a problem of compiler configuration than one of compiler capability. Using the v1 sunpro-tools.jam with the patches I emailed to this list recently, the algorithm/string tests both compile and pass. However, using the v2 sun.jam even with the C++ 'OPTIONS' seeded with the necessary basic flags as per my v1 patch, the compilation of several tests fail even though the same test does both compile and pass on v1. There are still a few problems with the 5.8 compiler and the latest available patchset from SUN but in my experience they are not as bad as the regression tests suggest. Unfortunately I don't know quite enough about the way Boost build v2 works in comparison to v1 so I'm a tad stuck duplicating the v1 patch for v2. If anybody who knows v2 better could get in touch off-list and lend a hand, that would be great. Regards, Tio