Re: [Boost-build] Problems with boost compilation

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-13 10:58:31

Brett Carr wrote:

> Please be gentle, I'm not a developer and have very little knowledge of 
> boost, I'm having trouble compiling some boost libraries on a Solaris 10 
> sparc machine currrently.
> 
> 
> I am running the command
> 
> tools/jam/src/bin.solaris/bjam --toolset=gcc stage -d2 -j32 
> address-model=64 architecture=sparc instruction-set=v9 --with-filesystem 
> --with-regex --layout=system --prefix=${PREFIX}
> 
> and I am getting an error:
> 
> /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- start-group
> /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- end-group
> 
> Is this enogh information for anybody to assist me in what is going wrong?

Which version of boost? Which version of gcc?

Have a look at 
http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/summary.html for 
the currently tested configurations. Gcc on Sun should work in principle, 
AFAICT.

> 
> Help much appreciated.
> 
> Brett

Markus