[Monotone-devel] Boost/GCC version problems

[Jon Bright]

Having seen a few of those segfault problems floating around recently: 
might it be worth adding something like the following to configure?

BOOSTGCC=$(strings libboost_date_time-gcc-1_33_1.a |grep '^GCC.*GNU' 
|head -n 1 |cut -d ' ' -f 3)
CURRENTGCC=$(gcc --version |head -n 1 |cut -d ' ' -f 3)
if [ "$BOOSTGCC" != "" -a "$CURRENTGCC" != "" -a "$BOOSTGCC" != 
"$CURRENTGCC" ]; then
	echo "The gcc used to compile Boost is not the same version as the gcc 
which would currently be used.  This frequently leads to problems.  We 
very strongly recommend recompiling Boost with your current GCC version."
        exit
fi

My quickly-hacked shell script might need some tweaking to be more 
broadly applicable, but this seems like an approach that could avoid 
developer time being taken up with these problems (and also avoid a lot 
of poor user experiences)?

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Jon Bright
Silicon Circus Ltd.
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