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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:01:43 -0700
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> 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

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