Does anyone know how to workaround or better fix this? Or does anyone know who to talk to, to get these problems fixed? Also, I would suggest, that documentation for these python-scripts are added to the documentation of Boost.MPL.
I couldn't get your bash script to work for me with cygwin - and you're correct that these should be much better documented!
I do not have cygwin and therefore cannot check that. (I am using Linux.) However, I realized that for the python-scripts it is crucial that the path to Boost's source-directory is an absolute path. I adjusted the bash-script accordingly and also extended it with some additional functionality. (For Boost up to 1.55.0 it should work.) Please give it a try ([1]). (Try to call the script with a value of '30' for the optional second argument.)
However, using Boost.Config with BOOST_NO_CONFIG works just fine for me, the only thing that would trip it up would be if BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION is defined - as support for this is now removed from Boost. Looking at the scripts I suspect it's generating headers for a variety of compilers in one go?
I would guess so, too.
And it looks like some of those are old ones no longer supported.
Try this: in the python files are a number of lists which include "no_ctps", "msvc60", "msvc70". Try removing these from the lists and run again.
You are right. The "user.hpp" files for these three compilers in the corresponding subdirectories in [2] each contain the macro-definition of BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION. When removing the entries from the lists in the python-scripts as you suggest, no warnings or errors occur during generation. However, the resulting files in subdirectories of [3] (for the corresponding compilers) are all empty. Somehow, generation still fails.
If that works, can you file a pull request on Github?
Sadly, it did not work. It just prevented a lot of errors but did not generate proper files. (Also, I must first check, how to file a pull request on Github. :-) ) Deniz References: [1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/20660264/3115457 [2] ${BOOST_SOURCE}/libs/mpl/preprocessed/include/ [3] ${BOOST_SOURCE}/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/