Re: [Boost-build] Boost 1.34 with Portland Group Compilers

From: K. Noel Belcourt (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-29 14:39:32

On May 29, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Server Levent Yilmaz wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone have a BBv2 toolset for the Portland Group C++ compiler?
>
> Given the rest of my day, I probably won't be as lucky to have  
> "yes" for an answer, so moving on...
>
> I really do not want much. All I need is to have bjam effectively  
> execute the following on boost source
>
>   $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c whatever.cpp
>    ..
>    ar rcs libname.a whatever.o
>
> where CXX and CXXFLAGS are set for the PG compiler and create silly  
> single threaded static libraries on my given platform.
>
> FWIW, Portland's compiler is powerful enough that it doesn't have  
> any problems with header only libraries. Moreover, back in previous  
> version, I randomly modified a few lines of gcc toolset in BBv1 and  
> was able get Boost.Serialization and Boost.Filesystem to build.
>
> However, I am clueless where to begin with BBv2 and its toolsets.  
> Any help will be a life saver!

Here's a basic pgi.jam file that works for our local environment, but  
unfortunately we don't use it to build boost.

HTH.

-- Noel