Re: [Boost-build] Problems with boost compilation

From: Brett Carr (brett.carr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-15 08:52:49

On 13 Jun 2008, at 17:28, Vladimir Prus wrote:

> On Friday 13 June 2008 17:08:33 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?
>
> You did not say what, if any, is in your user-config.jam. Make sure  
> it contains
> something like this:
>
> 	using gcc : : : <linker-type>sun ;
>

Nothing was in my user-config.jam as I didn't know it even existed :)
Adding that line fixed the problem, thanks
As a matter of interest is there anyway to pass the linker type on the  
command line?

Thanks

Brett