[boost] bjam - help please

Subject: [boost] bjam - help please
From: Edward Grace (ej.grace_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-23 10:14:33

Since I'm trying to Boostify (is that a legitimate word now? - heck  
you can verb anything these days) my code, I decided to try bjam:

Gulp, having been weaned on automake and fiends [sic] it looks like  
it should be easy enough, but I've fallen at the first hurdle:

In Jamroot:
using gcc : 4.4 : g++-4 ;
exe example_basic
     : example_basic.cpp
     : <include>. ;

The <include>. line, as I understand it will mean the #include <blah>  
that I use will pick up stuff in the same directory as the source  
file (this seems ok).

My problem is the link stage,

$ bjam example_basic
...found 53 targets...
...updating 1 target...
gcc.link bin/gcc-4.4/debug/example_basic
/usr/bin/ld: unknown flag: --start-group
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

     "g++-4"    -o "bin/gcc-4.4/debug/example_basic" -Wl,--start- 
group "bin/gcc-4.4/debug/example_basic.o"  -Wl,-Bstatic  -Wl,- 
Bdynamic  -Wl,--end-group -g

...failed gcc.link bin/gcc-4.4/debug/example_basic...

I've no idea where all this --start-group stuff comes from -- never  
seen it before.

Any ideas?

-ed

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