id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
2074	Function named VERSION causes problem with configure tools	anonymous	Robert Ramey	"Hi guys,

In file:

  boost/archive/basic_xml_archive.hpp

There are many functions with names all in capital. I think that, already, is a bad idea. The problem is that one of them is named VERSION.

This is one of the -D flags generated by the automake/libtool suite and thus I cannot compile using the XML archive system without adding a fix (i.e. with -DVERSION=""1.3"" on the command line it just won't compile.) People at large won't have any control over that one.

At this time, what I do is add this at the beginning of the file:

#ifdef VERSION
#undef VERSION
#endif

That works for me, but that is not a solution.

I would think that the names need to be fixed. All capital names are reserved for macros and using those there is really bad. I would not be too surprised if some of these names would clash with #define's found in the MS-Windows header files too!

Thank you.
Alexis Wilke

P.S. this is still a problem in the current SVN.
"	Bugs	closed		serialization	Boost 1.35.0	Problem	fixed