Re: [boost] Release 1_35_0_RC2

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-25 01:49:15

K. Noel Belcourt wrote:

> Hi Beman,
> 
> A couple of comments on RC2.  It builds fine with the darwin toolset
> (gcc 4.0.1) on an Intel core2 running Tiger.  All the documentation
> links I checked worked okay.  There're a couple of issues building
> with the Intel compilers under Tiger (the intel-darwin toolset).
> 
> (1) The configure script doesn't recognize the intel-darwin toolset.
> I've attached patches to both tools/jam/src/build.sh and tools/jam/
> src/build.jam so the intel-darwin toolset is recognized.  With these
> patches, users with intel compilers on the Mac should be able to:
> 
> ./configure --with-toolset=intel-darwin ; make
> 
> (2) Python fails to compile when the intel compilers generate 64 bit
> code, the fix is to build 32 bit if you need python.
> 
> (3) The address-model property in intel-darwin.jam isn't properly
> configured.  I've attached a patch to fix tools/build/v2/tools/intel-
> darwin.jam to make this work with address-model=32,64.

Why you've left  -mcmodel=small commented out? Does this option
actually exist, and if so, is it good for anything? Or -m32/-m64 make
this option unnecessary.

- Volodya