locale failures in Windows builds

2007-04-12 Thread Martin Sebor
Looks like most locales fail to build on Windows. It would be good to look into those before cutting the [pre]release branch -- Farid, do you have any insight? Martin

unprintable characters in Windows build logs

2007-04-12 Thread Martin Sebor
...anyone else seeing the question marks at the end of our Windows build logs when invoking the clean target? It looks purely cosmetic but if someone has the time it would be nice to clean them up :) Here's what I'm seeing (the question mark is the first character on the line line below the one t

errors using EDG eccp on Solaris 10

2007-04-12 Thread Martin Sebor
I've been trying to set up the EDG eccp demo, version 3.9, for building stdcxx on Solaris 10, and I'm encountering some problems with both gcc and Sun cc as the back end. I thought I'd post what I'm up against here for future reference. Here's the setup using gcc as the back end (the default for

Re: Portability of built Standard Library

2007-04-12 Thread Martin Sebor
Patrick Happel wrote: Martin, I really appreciate your responses to this message, and the other one regarding locales. This information should be enough to get the users I'm helping sorted out. However, you didn't answer this question, which is the one I was specifically asked: Can a built ve

RE: Portability of built Standard Library

2007-04-12 Thread Patrick Happel
Martin, I really appreciate your responses to this message, and the other one regarding locales. This information should be enough to get the users I'm helping sorted out. However, you didn't answer this question, which is the one I was specifically asked: Can a built version of the library (ie

Re: question about locales

2007-04-12 Thread Martin Sebor
Patrick Happel wrote: Martin, Sorry for not updating this earlier. This problem may actually be due to the user having an out of date patch on their compiler. We'll find out after they update. I am actually working with someone else running into the same error, but possibly for a different

Re: Portability of built Standard Library

2007-04-12 Thread Martin Sebor
Patrick Happel wrote: Hi all, I had a question come up that I wasn't sure about regarding the released versions of the library, and I'm hoping someone can answer it: Since the Standard Library doesn't build if an acceptable locale isn't installed, can a built version of the library (ie a .lib,

RE: question about locales

2007-04-12 Thread Patrick Happel
Martin, Sorry for not updating this earlier. This problem may actually be due to the user having an out of date patch on their compiler. We'll find out after they update. I am actually working with someone else running into the same error, but possibly for a different reason: The users are

Re: question about locales

2007-04-12 Thread Martin Sebor
Martin Sebor wrote: Patrick Happel wrote: Hello all, This problem got transferred to me since Jeremy has gone on vacation, and it seems to be continuing. LOCALE_NAME_FMAT.cpp was edited via a patch supplied by Jeremy, which I assume made the changes described in STDCXX-128. Here are some mor

Portability of built Standard Library

2007-04-12 Thread Patrick Happel
Hi all, I had a question come up that I wasn't sure about regarding the released versions of the library, and I'm hoping someone can answer it: Since the Standard Library doesn't build if an acceptable locale isn't installed, can a built version of the library (ie a .lib, .dll, or .a file) be use