[boost] Port to z/OS

From: Harry Goldschmitt (harry_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-03 12:58:29

I'm not sure this is the right mailing list.  I'm trying to port to 
IBM z/OS, using the IBM c89 compiler.  Has anyone done this or can 
someone give me some help.  From what I can tell, there are a lot of 
checks for _IBMCPP in the code.  They, however, assume AIX and vacpp. 
I guess architecture checks would have to be added to the mix.

For what it's worth, pwd.c in boost_1_33_1/tools/build/jam_src, 
assumes PATH_MAX is defined.  Unfortunately, z/OS doesn't define it, 
since the maximum path names vary depending on the file system, hfs, 
zfs or MVS.  I've kludged around it by #define PATH_MAX 
_POSIX_PATH_MAX, but the "correct" solution would probably be to use 
pathconf.

Thanks,

Harry