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

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 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.
With such short names they are bound to clash at some point with some 
3rd party software. You could prefix them with a namespace, say MTN_... 
so have MTN_L() etc.
>
> zw
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