Re: [boost] [python] patch for python.jam for HP-UX

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-20 08:28:02

"Boris Gubenko" <Boris.Gubenko_at_[hidden]> writes:

>   In rule init-unix, python.jam defines system-specific libraries to link
>   against. There are special cases for SOLARIS, OSF, ...etc, but not for
>   HP-UX. As a result, HP-UX falls into default clause:
>
>         extra-libs = pthread dl util
>
>   I don't know which flavour of Unix has libutil library, but HP-UX does
>   not. Because of this issue, python library tests py-run fail to link
>   on HP-UX.
>
>   Attached patch fixes this issue. I ran 1.34 regression tests and
>   verified, that python tests that previously would fail to link now
>   succeed. I also verified, that the patch does not cause any regression.
>   Please, apply it to HEAD and RC_1_34_0 branch.

Done, thanks!

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Dave Abrahams
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