From b7ecbd55d6592eceac7e5e1c53f041fda320db0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martyn Gigg <martyn.gigg@stfc.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:42:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix ambiguous overload error with boost 1.53
Refs #9349
---
.../Framework/Algorithms/src/CalculateTransmission.cpp | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Code/Mantid/Framework/Algorithms/src/CalculateTransmission.cpp b/Code/Mantid/Framework/Algorithms/src/CalculateTransmission.cpp
index ae463d57def..6f35de92151 100644
--- a/Code/Mantid/Framework/Algorithms/src/CalculateTransmission.cpp
+++ b/Code/Mantid/Framework/Algorithms/src/CalculateTransmission.cpp
@@ -233,9 +233,16 @@ API::MatrixWorkspace_sptr CalculateTransmission::extractSpectra(API::MatrixWorks
{
// Compile a comma separated list of indices that we can pass to SumSpectra.
std::vector<std::string> indexStrings(indices.size());
+ // A bug in boost 1.53: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7421
+ // means that lexical_cast cannot be used directly as the call is ambiguous
+ // so we need to define a function pointer that can resolve the overloaded
+ // lexical_cast function
+ typedef std::string (*from_size_t)(const size_t &);
+
std::transform(
indices.begin(), indices.end(),
- indexStrings.begin(), boost::lexical_cast<std::string, size_t>);
+ indexStrings.begin(),
+ (from_size_t)boost::lexical_cast<std::string, size_t>);
const std::string commaIndexList = boost::algorithm::join(indexStrings, ",");
double start = m_done;
--
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