Re: [boost] Sun-5.8 failures

From: Albert Chin (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-27 12:05:20

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:01:08PM +0200, BjXrn_Roald wrote:
> 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.

Huh? It adds a DT_NEEDED entry to the executable/library for
libstlport.so.1.

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albert chin (china_at_[hidden])