[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#701377: Bug#701377: boost1.49: ftbfs with GCC-4.8

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 1 March 2013 23:55, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox at debian.org> wrote:
> On 1 March 2013 14:17, Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 1 March 2013 21:14, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox at debian.org> wrote:
>>> In Ubuntu, instead of applying the full patch against 1.49, we went
>>> for a minimalistic hack/patch to workaround TIME_UTC in eglibc-2.16.
>>> Simply undef TIME_UTC if defined.
>>
>> Is that expected to work for a program that uses both libboost-thread
>> and C11 date and time?
>
> yes, as both have always evaluated to the same constant value on linux.

On glibc, rather.  An unsafe assumption, given that C11 does not
define the value any more than a non-zero, positive integer.  Boost
does not even specify that much.

These are different APIs, it is not precise to overload a single
macro.  The boost macro exists in a distinct namespace and the Ubuntu
patch does not appear to have the feature you claim.  From the
attached test case:

$ g++ -o test -lboost_thread test.cc
test.cc: In function ‘int main(int, const char**)’:
test.cc:8:11: error: ‘TIME_UTC’ was not declared in this scope
   int x = TIME_UTC;
           ^
--

Further, #undef is placed outside of the BOOST_XTIME_WEK070601_HPP
header guard; a second include of this header would undefine and not
subsequently redefine the macro.

Regards
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