> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:50:28 +0300 > Subject: To boost maintainer > From: Eray Ozkural > > No, you have not done adequate testing obviously. > > I know what I'm doing and I tested 1.39 and it DOES NOT WORK with > cygwin gcc-4, you have to compile gcc yourself if you want it to work. > > Stop giving wrong information to people, you are wasting others' time. > I see that you've said exactly the same thing to somebody else who > couldn't get it to work. > > What I am saying is that giving the --enable-auto-import flag manually > to the linker DOES NOT SOLVE anything. It only makes a freezing > program crash. Doh'. > > I've explained the build procedure that I used in detail, only to > /dev/null it seems. Try to read my mail carefully. All the information > you need to replicate the bug is there. If you have a working build > procedure to run program_options, supply it, and no --Wl,... per your > suggestion solves exactly nothing, to repeat myself, in case this bit > of simple information is not getting through. I'd already tried it on > both cygwin 1.5 and cygwin 1.7, multiple times, to no avail. > > And more obviously, you have not taken the time to run the TEST SUITES > of program_options and regexp libraries, i.e. libraries that do > require linking. Do you know how to run the test suites of boost, I > wonder? If not, I suggest you to give it a shot, you might be > surprised! Go into the test suite and example directories and invoke > bjam by providing its path, it should be that simple. It might not > crash with every boost library so you have to try those libs... > > Also, why is it so difficult to accept that there may be something > wrong with gcc-4 in cygwin? Somebody wrote a patch that has only > limited applicability, and guess what it does have limited > applicability. > > xemacs is also broken I bet it's the same dynamic linking error. > > PS: CC to me I am not subscribed to this list > Hi...
You seem like a friendly, helpful and cooperative person; perhaps you should consider volunteering to maintain the Boost package for Cygwin. ...Karl _________________________________________________________________ Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that’s right for you. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/choosepc/?ocid=ftp_val_wl_290 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
