Re: [boost] Problems building 1.27.0 on Tru64 Unix

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-26 15:49:03

Yes, a number of issues with cxx have come up. Please see this thread:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jamboost/message/538

Care to attempt a fix?

-Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Hadsell" <hadsell_at_[hidden]>
To: "Boost" <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:59 PM
Subject: [boost] Problems building 1.27.0 on Tru64 Unix

> I am trying to build the boost libraries with Compaq C++ V6.5-011 for
Digital UNIX V4.0F.  At the moment, I am only interested in the regex
library.  I had similar problems when building this library from a copy
downloaded directly from John Maddock's web site.
>
> (1) The archive library fails to build, because there are too many
files in the template instantiation directory:
>
> ----
> 74%
tools/build/jam_src/bin.digital/jam -sBOOST_ROOT=. -sTOOLS=tru64cxx65 -s
BUILD=debug
> ...patience...
> ...found 1369 targets...
> ...updating 234 targets...
> tru64cxx65-C++-action
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/c_regex_traits.o
> tru64cxx65-C++-action
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/c_regex_traits_co
mmon.o
> ...
> tru64cxx65-C++-action
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/wide_posix_api.o
> tru64cxx65-Archive-action
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/libboost_regex.a
> /bin/sh: /bin/ar: arg list too long
>
>   rm -f
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/libboost_regex.a
>   ar r
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/libboost_regex.a
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/c_regex_traits.o
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/c_regex_traits_co
mmon.o
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/cpp_regex_traits.
o libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/cregex.o
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/fileiter.o
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/posix_api.o
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/regex.o
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/regex_debug.o
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/regex_synch.o
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/w32_regex_traits.
o
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/wide_posix_api.o
cxx_repository/*
>
> ...failed tru64cxx65-Archive-action
libs/regex/build/bin/libboost_regex.a/tru64cxx65/debug/libboost_regex.a
...
> ----
>
> The problem lies in the "cxx_repository/*" argument for ar.  I fixed
the makefile in the non-Jam version of this library this way:
>
> AR:= ar -cq
> LIBNAME:= boost_regex
> DIRNAME:= generic
> LIBDIR:= $(DIRNAME)/$(LIBNAME)
> IIDIR:= $(LIBDIR)/ptrepository
> CXXFLAGS:= $(CXXFLAGS) -ptr $(IIDIR)
>
> $(DIRNAME)/lib$(LIBNAME).a : $(ALL_O)
> rm -f $@
> $(AR) $@ $^
> @for i in $(shell ls -1 $(IIDIR)); \
> do \
> echo $(AR) $@ $(IIDIR)/$$i; \
> $(AR) $@ $(IIDIR)/$$i; \
> done
>
> It takes a long time to add each instantiation with a separate call to
'ar', but it gets the job done.  If anyone knows a better way to handle
this, I'm interested.  Meanwhile, the Jam rule for building an archive
library needs a fix for this compiler.
>
> (2) The default cxx_repository used by this compiler should be located
in the build area for each version (debug, release, archive, shared,
etc.) rather than in the boost root directory.  As each version gets
built, it currently looks in the common repository and either gets
confused or possibly adds a bunch of instantiations from a previous
build into each successive library.  In my fix for the first problem, I
used the -ptr option to relocate the template repository.
>
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