Documentation of various versions of the
Quantities package are available at (note in particular the user's
manuals):
Documentation of the BSUtilities helper package
is available at:
Documentation for your installation can be generated and installed
as described in the README file. This file also informs you where the
final documentation resides on your system.
The source code
contains test programs which show some practical examples of use.
These can be generated with `make check'.
Additional information is being collected in a wiki type information resource
here.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
Due to some inconsistencies,
the test programs for version 1.2 can not be compiled. A revised
version is been posted (version 1.2.1).
Also, although the code of Quantities version 1.2 and BSUtilities 0.6
works when gcc v. 3.3.3 is used to compile, more recent version of
the gnu C++ compiler, such as the most recent 4.1.2 pre-release
(included in openSuSE 10.2),
do find errors, most
of them owing to more restricted lookup rules for templated names. This
has been inproved in version 1.2.1 and BSutilities 0.6.1. However,
some of the changes are not backward compatible with gcc 3.3.3, so an
alternative is released as version 1.2.1-oldgcc. Please download
according to your compiler version.
Furthermore, gcc 4.2.1 (default compiler in the
openSuSE 10.3 distribution) does not compile
the test programs of Quantities version 1.2.1. The libraries are
correctly generated. This issue has been solved in versions 1.2.2/0.6.2. Gcc
compiler versions up to 4.3.x have been used.
Please note in addition to the instructions in the installation documentation:
To compile the Boost library (version 1.34.1, which is needed to compile
BSUtilities and Quantities; more recent version of Boost do not work!),
-
Substitute in file
boost/date_time/date_facet.hpp (line 432)
typedef special_values_parser<date_type,CharT> special_values_parser_type;
by
typedef boost::date_time::special_values_parser<date_type,CharT> special_values_parser_type;
-
Add
#include<limits.h>
to boost/test/test_tools.hpp.
-
To compile with gcc (versions 4.3.x) on a x86_64 system, add the
CXXFLAG -DBOOST_NO_INTRINSIC_INT64_T to the Boost build process.
Please report bugs and problems to the
author.