I wondered if someone could help me with compiling/using boost under lsb (Linux standard base). This is what I have tried so far:

unpack boost 43

bootstrap.sh

Add the following line to project-config.jam:

using gcc : : /opt/lsb/bin/lsbc++ : <cflags>-U_GNU_SOURCE <cxxflags>-U_GNU_SOURCE <cflags> --lsb-verbose <cxxflags>--lsb-verbose ;

Compile just the test library for now:

bjam cflags=-fPIC cxxflags=-fPIC linkflags=-fPIC --with-test --link-static -d+2 --verbose

This appears to work fine. Now a trivial bit of testcode:

#define BOOST_AUTO_TEST_MAIN
#include <boost/test/auto_unit_test.hpp>
#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE (blah)
{
BOOST_CHECK (1);
}

Build the example, and die trying :-) The command-line passed to the backend compiler does include -lstdc++ . I have checked the same example works fine when everything is compiled using plain g++. My default gcc version is gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5). I am fairly sure the problem is not specific to the test library :

/opt/lsb/bin/lsbc++ -o linktest_executable linktest.cpp -I boost_1_43_0 boost_1_43_0/stage/lib/libboost_unit_test_framework.a --lsb-verbose

(....)

test_tools.cpp:(.text+0x3c72): undefined reference to `std::basic_istream<char, std::char_traits<char> >::ignore(int)'

What am I doing wrong please? Any hints or help will be most appreciated. Many thanks in advance.