Re: [boost] [build] bjam problems on OSX

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-13 01:51:33

Matthias Schabel wrote:

> I'm having a hard time getting bjam --v2 to function properly on my
> system;
> it's probably just something stupid, but here's the problem :
> 
> download latest CVS-HEAD snapshot and install
> ./configure --with-libraries=regex,serialization,mpi
> 
> copy bjam to /usr/local/bin
> 
> cd $BOOST_ROOT/libs/date_time/test
> bjam --v2
> 
> resulting in a slew of errors like the following sample :
> 
>      "g++"    -o "../../../bin.v2/libs/date_time/test/
> testgreg_day.test/gcc-4.0.1/debug/testgreg_day" -Wl,--start-group

I would suggest trying invoke bjam as follows:

        bjam toolset=darwin

On OSX, gcc is seriously different so it deserves its own
toolset name.

- Volodya