Re: [boost] Boost 1.61.0 Release Candidate 1

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost 1.61.0 Release Candidate 1
From: Thomas Trummer (th.trummer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-07 15:06:13

> On 07 May 2016, at 17:18, Vladimir Prus <vladimir.prus_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> could you say which 'hacks' you have in mind. It builds out of the box on OSX with system
> compiler, for sure.

Vladimir,

here are the different build options and the corresponding results:

$ ./b2 
Works correctly out of the box and builds to 'darwin-4.2.1’. 

$ ./b2 toolset=gcc
Fails to build with everything failing due to '/bin/sh: line 1: -ftemplate-depth-128: command not found’. There is probably no value in this working since ‘gcc' is just a symlink to ‘clang’ anyway, I just want to mention it for completeness.

$ ./b2 toolset=gcc-4.9
Correctly pickups the compiler but fails to build with
- clang: error: unsupported option '—64'
- ld: unknown option: -h
The ‘clang’ errors result from the assembler files of Boost.Context. The linker errors result from the build system expecting the gcc linker instead of the darwin linker.

$ ./b2 toolset=gcc-5
Correctly pickups the compiler but fails for the same reasons as gcc-4.9.

The ‘hack’ or workaround for this is to define '#using darwin : 5.3.0 : g++-5 : <linker-type>darwin ;’ in user-config.jam and build with ' ./b2 toolset=darwin-5.3.0’. This is not a big deal it’s just not obvious.

Thomas