From: Edward Diener (eddielee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-23 07:28:25
Nicola Musatti wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
> [...]
>>>> "Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Its easy to download spirit 1.6. There's no "instalation" necessary
>>>>> other than just specifying the directory to which it has been loaded
>>>>> in one's path.
>>>>
>>>> Where and how is that "specified?"
>>
>> Okay, I found it, thanks. However, you should know that the link on
>> that page that points to how to download Spirit 1.6 is broken.
>
> Actually it's not that simple. Out-of-the-box Spirit 1.6.3 only works if
> it's used as in place replacement for 1.8 . The use of double quotes
> instead of angle brackets causes the compiler to include 1.8 files from
> 1.6 headers. To overcome this problem you can either export from Boost's
> CVS SPIRIT_1_6 branch or tweak the attached Python script to fix the
> 1.6.3 distribution.
I had mentioned this on the gmane.comp.parsers.spirit.devel NG on
7/22/2005 and was told that it would be fixed for the next release.
Evidently it never was.