I’m running into a strange issue when I try to compile the following simple C++11 code on my machine:
#include <boost/thread/thread.hpp>
It compiles fine with g++ foo.cpp -o foo but chokes on g++ -c -std=c++11 foo.cpp -o foo
with the following error:
In file included from /usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.0/4.7.1/../../../../include/c++/4.7.1/functional:56:0, from /usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.0/4.7.1/../../../../include/c++/4.7.1/memory:81, from /usr/local/include/boost/config/no_tr1/memory.hpp:21, from /usr/local/include/boost/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.hpp:27, from /usr/local/include/boost/shared_ptr.hpp:17, from /usr/local/include/boost/thread/pthread/thread_data.hpp:10, from /usr/local/include/boost/thread/thread.hpp:17, from foo.cpp:1: ./tuple:1:1: error: stray ‘317’ in program ./tuple:1:1: error: stray ‘372’ in program ./tuple:1:1: error: stray ‘355’ in program ./tuple:1:1: error: stray ‘376’ in program ... Additional lines omitted
I’m at a loss. Especially since I’ve been able to compile other programs against C++11 without any issue. Any ideas?
I’m running OS X v10.7.4 (Lion) and GCC 4.7.1.
Answer
That’s because you have a file in your current directory named tuple
that is included instead of the standard tuple
header. Probably because of some -I.
in the compilation line.
The strays characters in the error messages are simply the first bytes of the file not in the allowed character set, in octal.