Using a real parser generator to parse numbers (and dates)

[Rene Engelhard]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:48:16PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 03:24:33AM -0800, julien2412 wrote:
> > Just for the remind but perhaps you had already noticed the Boost version
> > included in LO is 1.44
> > There's a flag in autogen to use Boost from system (--with-system-boost) see
> > thread http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/About-Boost-1-48-td3757059.html.
> 
> My thoughts were along the lines of "we can just bump the internal
> Boost version if that is necessary". From
> http://bugs.debian.org/652681 I see it might require a more recent
> gcc, although it is not clear whether 4.4/4.5 would have the same bug
> or if it was newly introduced in 4.6 :-|

As (implicitely( said in this bug this started to appear with 4.6.2-9 and isn't
there  anymore in 4.6.2-12. So probably some temporary gcc_4_6-branch breakage.
(yeah, I like Debians nonsensical gcc package versioning without doing
mentioning 4.6.2~YYYYMMDD or so)

> If 4.4/4.5 are OK, but "only" 4.6.0-4.6.9 are to be blacklisted, I'd
> argue it is not a significant problem.

I think so, yes.

Regards,

Rene