Re: [jamboost] Building Boost under Sun CC for Solaris

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-26 14:22:00

From: "Christopher Currie" <christopher_at_[hidden]>

> All,
>
> The Sun compiler Forte CC 6u2 for Solaris seems to have minimal to
> non-existent support within boost. I've made several attempts to get
boost
> 1.28.0 and boost CVS to compile under the old build system, with mixed
> results. Is anyone else working on getting boost to build in this
> environment?

I probably will be working on that a bit sometime next month.

> If not, where do I begin learning how to use Boost.Build v2? I'm having a
> hard time figuring out how it works.

Boost.Build v2 is not ready for prime time. Boost.Build v1 should be
perfectly fine for getting Boost going under Forte CC. The main thing is to
make a toolset file. Toolsets tend to be pretty straightforward. You might
look at one of the simpler ones, say boost/tools/build/vacpp-tools.jam.

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