Re: [boost] Sun-5.8 failures

From: Bjørn Roald (bjorn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-27 12:01:08

Albert Chin skrev:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:11:21AM +0400, Simon Atanasyan wrote:
>   
>> Albert Chin wrote:
>>     
>>> Is stlport4 "better" than Cstd?
>>>       
>> Cstd is an old implementation. It does not conforms to standard.
>> And it will never conforms because we (Sun) need to maintains
>> binary compatibility with old releases. Stlport is closer to
>> standard and contains some features necessary for Boost.
>>     
>
> Doesn't using stlport4 require an installation of the Sun C++ compiler
> installed for access to libstlport.so?
-library=stlport4 tell the Sun C++ (pre)compiler and linker to use the stlport lib that ship and installs with the standard install, but it is not used as default.  Hope that answers your question.

Bjørn