read_graphviz_new.cpp build failure on Solaris

[tropikhajma@…]

Trying to build boost 1.45 on Solaris 11 express with the Sun Studio 12.1 compiler fails with:

$ /opt/sunstudio12.1/bin/CC -library=no%Cstd -I/usr/include/stdcxx4/ansi -I/usr/include/stdcxx4 -I/opt/kde4/include/unicode -I/opt/kde4/include/layout -I/opt/kde4/include -lc -lpthread -lposix4 -lrt -mt -D_REENTRANT -DNDEBUG -KPIC -DEXTENSIONS=1 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_XPG5 -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -DSOLARIS -DSOLARIS10 -DBOOST_POSIX=1 -UBOOST_DISABLE_THREADS -DBOOST_HAS_THREADS=1 -DBOOST_HAS_PTHREADS=1 -UBOOST_NO_STD_ITERATOR_TRAITS -UBOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION -DHAVE_ICU=1 -DBOOST_HAS_ICU=1 -UBOOST_NO_STDC_NAMESPACE -DSUNPROCC_BOOST_COMPILE=1 -D_RWSTD_REENTRANT -DPy_TRACE_REFS -DPy_USING_UNICODE -DNDEBUG -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_GRAPH_DYN_LINK=1 -I"." -I"libs/graph/src" -c -o "bin.v2/libs/graph/build/sun/release/stdlib-sun-stdcxx/threading-multi/read_graphviz_new.o" "libs/graph/src/read_graphviz_new.cpp" "./boost/proto/detail/expr0.hpp", line 458: Error: A class with a reference member must have a user-defined constructor. "./boost/xpressive/regex_primitives.hpp", line 569: Where: While specializing "boost::proto::exprns_::expr<boost::proto::tag::assign, boost::proto::argsns_::list2<boost::xpressive::mark_tag&, const boost::xpressive::mark_tag&>, 2>". "./boost/xpressive/regex_primitives.hpp", line 569: Where: Specialized in non-template code. "./boost/xpressive/regex_primitives.hpp", line 569: Error: Expected an expression. "./boost/xpressive/regex_primitives.hpp", line 569: Error: Use ";" to terminate statements. 3 Error(s) detected.

I got the same result with Studio 12.2 I'm using stdcxx 4.2.1 and the environment from the kde-solaris project, which built boost 1.43 just fine.

Attaching the preprocessed sources

[Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@…>]

preprocessed sources at ​ftp://hajma.no-ip.org/usb_1/osol/misc/a.i.bz2

[Jeremiah Willcock]

Are you going to use the Graphviz functionality in Boost.Graph, or are you just trying to build other parts of Boost? If you don't need the functionality, try just putting #if 0 around the entire libs/graph/src/read_graphviz_new.cpp file.

[Eric Niebler]

Sorry, xpressive does not support the sun compiler because it's too buggy. For instance, there is nothing wrong with a constructor-less class that has a reference member, AFAIK. Comeau accepts it in strict mode. Feel free to file a bug against the sun compiler.