Re: [Boost-build] [Python] Can't Build With PGI Compiler

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-23 13:16:56

On Friday 22 August 2008 23:04:12 William Ladwig wrote:
> Thank you for your help.  I was using the ./configure script that comes packaged with the Boost_1_36 gzipped file.  There must be a little problem with its detection of the pgi compiler or some other minor bug.  (Also, I have had no problems building with gcc, but hadn't had any success building with pgi).
> 
> I followed your advice and called bjam directly from the boost folder, and it invoked the correct compiler options.  But, it failed immediately with errors similar to:
> 
> "./boost/config/compiler/pgi.hpp", line 27: catastrophic error: #error
>           directive: "Pgi compiler not configured - please reconfigure"
>   #  error "Pgi compiler not configured - please reconfigure"
> 
> 
> 
> I opened up the pgi.hpp file and found this code:
> 
> #if (__PGIC__ == 7) && (__PGIC_MINOR__ == 1)
> 
> #define BOOST_FUNCTION_SCOPE_USING_DECLARATION_BREAKS_ADL
> #define BOOST_NO_TWO_PHASE_NAME_LOOKUP
> #define BOOST_NO_SWPRINTF
> 
> #else
> 
> #  error "Pgi compiler not configured - please reconfigure"
> 
> #endif
> 
> 
> It looks like pgi.hpp is only set-up for the pgi 7.1 compiler.  I'm using 7.2, so I changed the __PGIC_MINOR__ value in this header file and tried compiling again, and it worked!  There were a lot of compiler warnings, but it built the library.  I haven't tried the library yet with the pgi build, but this is at least a start.  Thanks!

I suggest you contact the C++ Boost developers and demand that pgi.hpp be open-coded
so that version 7.N+1 is considered as good as 7.N. At the very least, pgi.hpp
should be modified to allow 7.2. Using svn.boost.org to report such a bug
seems the best approach.

- Volodya