Re: [Boost-build] Bug in building shared libs on HP/UX(wrong linker arguments)

From: Oliver.Kowalke_at_[hidden]
Date: 2007-05-16 08:25:55

> And you can find the jam file for aCC on HP-UX in 
> tools/build/v2/tools/acc.jam. You can look at HP-UX Linker 
> options in acc.jam. In gcc.jam, you can look at 
> conditionalization for osf
> (Tru64) as an example.

Thanks - I still try to figure out how bjam v2 works (I believe some
changes have to be made).

> Btw, there may be a bug in gcc.jam:
> 
>   switch [ modules.peek : JAMUNAME ]
>   ...
>   case HP_UX :
> 
> Why is HP_UX and not HP-UX which is what uname(1) returns?
> And why is it not HPUX which is what os.name returns?
> What should it be?

This case int the switch shlould be remove because gcc (>= 3.x) supports
threads on HP/UX.

Oliver