Re: [Boost-build] No OSPLAT for AMD64 Linux

From: Jared W. Robinson (jared.robinson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-11 10:52:44

It looks like I'm not the only one that has wanted jam.h updated to
define the OSPLAT.  OSPLAT, in my opinion, should always be defined --
for "sparc", "x86" and now "x86_64". Wouldn't it make sense to define
this in the Boost CVS sources rather than have several people maintain
their own patches?

Who will make this change? Rene?

Thank you,

Jared Robinson

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 03:14:02PM -0500, Deane Yang wrote:
> Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 November 2006 18:52, Deane Yang wrote:
> >> I recently compiled bjam and installed Boost Build v2 on an AMD Athlon
> >> machine running Linux with gcc 4.0. The variable OSPLAT does not seem to
> >> work on this platform. Is there a simple way to fix this?
> > 
> > Hi Deane,
> > I'm afraid I don't know what's that variable, and how that's set. I think your 
> > best guess would be to grep jam sources for it and see why it's not defined 
> > on your platform.
> 
> It's set using the macro OSPLAT in boost/tools/jam/src/jam.h. I added it 
> to jam.h and recompiled. I'm fine now. Thanks for the response.
> 
> Deane