Re: [Boost-build] why is pathscale using mpicxx instead of pathCC ?

From: K. Noel Belcourt (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-27 21:29:09

On Nov 27, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Alain Miniussi wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:41:08 +0100, Alain Miniussi  
> <alain.miniussi_at_oca.eu> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:28:42 +0100, K. Noel Belcourt  
>> <kbelco_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>> The attached patch replaces the mpi wrappers with the native
>>> compilers and adds the -f77 option to the fortran 77 action.  I'll
>>> commit this patch if it looks reasonable to you.
>>
>> It's ok as far as I can tell.
>
> But... :-)
> ..Using it to build boost itself, I got 'invalid rpath options'  
> messages
> while building the shared versions of the libraries.
> I got a quick fix by replacing
>  -Wl,-rpath"$(RPATH)"
> with:
> -Wl,-rpath$(SPACE)-Wl,"$(RPATH)"
>
> (see pathscale.jam.diff attached)
>
> I suspect that -Wl,-rpath itself is not the best way to proceed
> (although we know that pathscale will use gnu linker anyway) but
> I don't know much about boost build so... (pathscale.jam.alt.diff is
> attached just in case)

I've committed your alt.diff patch to the trunk as it looks  
reasonable to me.

Thanks for the help.

-- Noel Belcourt