Re: [Monotone-devel] [Monotone-debian] Bug#653764: FTBFS with Boost 1.48: lgamma_small.hpp:483:38: error: expected primary-expression before 'do'

[Zack Weinberg]

On 2011-12-31 5:02 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 12:02:37PM +0100, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > I'm not in a position to verify this for myself for another week, but
> > I have a horrible feeling I know what's wrong:  Monotone defines
> > several one-character macros for its own use, and L() is one of them.
> > It looks like Boost is using L() for its own purposes and expecting it
> > not to be a macro.
...
> Or by changing the name of L.

L and several other one- or two-character macros (from memory: F, FL, I, 
M, MM; there are probably at least two more) are used dozens of times in 
every file -- and more important still, the coding style assumes they 
are short-yet-mnemonic.  I cannot support changing them.

zw