[boost] Documentation problem -http://www.boost.org/libs/conversion/lexical_cast.htm

2003-05-27 Thread John Levon
The documentation at http://www.boost.org/libs/conversion/lexical_cast.htm appears to make no mention of the whitespace-handling, or the fact that it can't handle things like lexical_cast("0x16"). It would be appreciated if these restrictions could be made clear. regards, john __

[boost] libs/config/configure as shipped in CVS is broken

2003-01-28 Thread John Levon
The generated script contains the lines : # add the -AA conformance option to CXXFLAGS for HP aCC only if test $CXX = 'aCC' CXXFLAGS="-AA $CXXFLAGS" fi This fails under "sh configure". Changing to : if test $CXX = 'aCC'; then CXXFLAGS="-AA $CXXFLAGS" fi fixes it regards john -- "What

[boost] Building boost ignores GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY etc.

2003-01-28 Thread John Levon
The documentation on the site indicates I can use GXX or GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY to specify which g++ binary to run. However, these settings are ignored, and the g++ in my path is used instead. GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY=/usr/local/gcc-cvs/ TOOLS=gcc ~/bin/bjam and other variants show this behaviour. regar

[boost] Boost and gcc's new C++ parser

2003-01-21 Thread John Levon
Just wondering if anyone has been isolating testcases etc. from boost code for gcc HEAD's new parser. The first problem I came across was : ../../boost/boost/type_traits/is_function.hpp:59: error: expected class-name ../../boost/boost/type_traits/is_function.hpp:59: error: expected `{' ../../boos

Re: [boost] cvs web access down?

2003-01-17 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:41:23AM -, John Maddock wrote: > Is anyone able to connect to > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/boost ? Sourceforge viewcvs/anoncvs is offline and looks like it will be for some unspecified period regards john -- "We're standing there pounding a dea