Boost.Build on IBM, SGI & HP

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-10 05:31:09

I tried to build the boost.jam on IBM and only encountered the problem 
that yyacc was not executable. After a 'chmod +x yyacc', the jam 
executable was generated.

However, I still get the same errors when launching 'jam' as with FTJam :

<\begin terminal output>
biot:/home/tk/boost/tools/build/jam_src/bin.aix> ./jam
+: line 1323: yacc stack overflow at string "
$(AR) $(<) -+$(>)
"
don't know how to make all
...found 1 target...
...can't find 1 target...
biot:/home/tk/boost/tools/build/jam_src/bin.aix>
<\end terminal output>

On SGI, jam compiled fined (after setting the executable flag on 
'yyacc'). Some time ago, you agreed with my proposition to provide 
jam-executables to the boost users for the most popular platforms. Do I 
already check in the SGI version and where ?

On HP (HP-UX 10.20) I did not succeed in building 'jam0' since 'alloca' 
is an undefined symbol. I have searched through all system libraries but 
could not find a definition of alloca. The man page directed me to an 
old library which neither defined 'alloca'. I found some information on 
the web though confirming that 'alloca' is indeed missing on (some / all 
?) HP-UX machines together with an open-source implementation of the 
routine.
(ref : 
http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/rechenbetrieb/infohalle/progber/Portierung/alloca.html)