Standalone binary printing out the BOOST_ARCHIVE_VERSION of a boost binary archive and the minimal version of Fairsoft needed to read it.

Caveats

1. The binary has to fully load/open the file to access the version number
2. boost throws an unsupported version exception of type boost::archive::archive_exception when encountering an archive created with a more recent and non-backward compatible version

=> !!! Use the newest version of Fairsoft or a most up to date version of boost to have largest compatibility !!! => User will probably want to use another version of boost than the one making troubles, therefore the independent compilation

Compilation

With Fairsoft nov22p1

g++ check_archive_version.cpp -I/cvmfs/fairsoft.gsi.de/debian10/fairsoft/nov22p1/include/boost/archive/ -L/cvmfs/fairsoft.gsi.de/debian10/fairsoft/nov22p1/lib -Wl,-rpath,/cvmfs/fairsoft.gsi.de/debian10/fairsoft/nov22p1/lib -lboost_serialization -o check_archive_version

Usage

./check_archive_version <PATH TO BOOST BINARY ARCHIVE>

Example

> ./check_archive_version /lustre/cbm/online/output/mCBM_24/2914_00_00.rra 
trying to check BOOST_ARCHIVE_VERSION of /lustre/cbm/online/output/mCBM_24/2914_00_00.rra
get_library_version() for /lustre/cbm/online/output/mCBM_24/2914_00_00.rra
 => 19
Minimal Fairsoft version: apr22 and its patch versions

Pre-compiled version on lustre

• !!! Subject to changes without warning !!!
• Should work as long as operating under Debian10 with cvmfs available (e.g. vae23or GSI Linux on lxg/lxi)
• Tested on vae23 and one lxg machine

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