Re: [boost] [filesystem] 1.36.0 regression tests fail on Solaris with Sun C++ 5.9

Subject: Re: [boost] [filesystem] 1.36.0 regression tests fail on Solaris with Sun C++ 5.9
From: Boris (boriss_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-18 11:13:30

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:23:20 +0200, Vladimir Prus  
<vladimir_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Boris wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:50:39 +0200, Simon Atanasyan  
>> <atanasyan_at_[hidden]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> [...]The -library=stlport4 command line option are missed. Boost  
>>> library
>>> should be built and used with this option.
>>
>> Thanks, I tried 'bjam --toolset=sun stdlib=sun-stlport -q' which worked!
>> What I don't understand though is why Boost hasn't been configured
>> accordingly for Solaris to use STLport automatically?
>
> Should it? I think that sun experts (Hi Simon!) told that it changes ABI,
> and old code does not use stlport, so having sun-stlport as default  
> stdlib
> is not good idea. Of course, I probably totally misremember things; we
> can probably make stdlib=sun-stlport the default, at least when building
> C++ Boost itself.

I vote yes. :) I managed to build Boost 1.36.0 on Solaris with both g++  
3.4.6 and Sun C++ 5.9 but only after doing this:

=> For g++ I had to put this line into ~/user-config.jam:

using gcc : : : <linker-type>sun ;

Without this line you'll get linker errors as g++ seems to use the wrong  
linker.

Building with g++ also only works with cxxflags=-mcpu=ultrasparc:

./bjam --toolset=gcc cxxflags=-mcpu=ultrasparc

But this must only be set of course if Solaris is used on a Sparc machine.

=> For Sun C++ I had to invoke bjam with:

./bjam --toolset=sun stdlib=sun-stlport

Here stdlib=sun-stlport should be the default.

I think that's all. I hope I didn't confuse anything as I played around  
with so many command line options.

Boris