[Rivet] [LHAPDF] Boost foreach bug

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at cern.ch
Tue Jul 8 18:10:12 BST 2014


On 07/07/14 12:37, David Grellscheid wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have just added a check for a nasty foreach bug in Boost which broke
> some Rivet analyses. gcc versions >=4.6 require boost >=1_47 to make
> BOOST_FOREACH work properly.
> 
> http://code-muse.com/2013/08/06/boostforeach-and-compiler-bugs
> 
> The main affected system is Ubuntu 12.04, which by default ships a
> broken combination of gcc-4.6 and boost-1_46. The packages will not
> compile anymore with this setup.

Thanks David, that's one more reason to get a Rivet 2.1.3 release fairly
soon (and then make a bit of a sprint to get in the cut and jet
functionality for 2.2.0 -- I may come down to Durham to work on that if
it suits you)

Andy

-- 
Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN


More information about the Rivet mailing list