Re: Building bjam on Solaris

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-07 11:56:36

"Toon Knapen" <toon.knapen_at_[hidden]> writes:

> I'm trying to build bjam on Solaris but I'm having some trouble.
>
> In 'struct frame' and in 'stuct _rule' there's a member declared as
> 'module * module ;'. This results in an error with sunpro saying :
> "redefining module after use in <name of struct>". So I suggest to
> rename the members to 'module_' instead of 'module' or better yet rename
> the type 'module' to 'module_t'.
> If you agree I can make all necessary changes if you want.

Fine with me, thanks!

[Please post these things to the jamboost list in the future.]

> I'm also having trouble using the build.sh script. First of all,
> 'whence' does not seem to exist on this platform. The build script
> does not recognise the compiler either. So I have to invoke the
> script as follows 'build.sh sunpro'. This is of course not really a
> problem but I just wanted to flag it (this is also true on IBM with
> the VisualAge compiler).
>
> toon
>
>

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