Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #9153: Building boost::log in Sun Studio 12.3: boost::log::aux::light_function fails to build

Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:22:38 GMT

I forgot to mention, though I hope it's obvious: compile with -DBREAK_IT to see the problem.

Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:25:10 GMT

As for the 'why' of this, I'm not really sure. The attribute_set and attribute_value_set classes (among others) use this idiom of forward declaring a class before marking it as a friend class.

I tried using some compiler options to force it to only use explicitly specialized versions of the class and the error wouldn't go away.

Andrey Semashev — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:33:33 GMT

Unfortunately, I don't have access to this compiler, neither there are testers using it in the test farm. So the only way I can fix this is if you provide a patch or through some experiments to figure out the source of the problem.

Could you try to move impl definition out of light_function body?

Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:03:44 GMT

Andy,

If you remove the forward declaration for impl and move the friend statement to after the impl body, the error goes away.

cc set

Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:03:53 GMT

cc phantall+boost@… added

Andrey Semashev — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:18:01 GMT

Does it help if you just define BOOST_LOG_NO_MEMBER_TEMPLATE_FRIENDS macro?

Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:48:06 GMT

Yes.

status changed; resolution set

Andrey Semashev — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:20:35 GMT

status new → closed
resolution → fixed

(In [85873]) Disabled friend declarations for nested class templates for SunPro compiler. Fixes #9153.

Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:30:51 GMT

Andy,

I haven't found a download link for it, but back in 2008 they began releasing 'express' versions of the compiler suite. It may be possible to get an express version for the current sun studio compiler.