[Boost-build] HP-UX Guru advice needed

From: Jim Gallagher (jim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-26 03:20:15

Hi,

I have a project that needs to be built on Windows and HP-UX PA-RISC.
Soon we will add HP IA64 builds as well. I am the build guy, and I
would like to use Boost Build to build our project.

I have things working OK on Windows, but I'm having problems on HP-UX.
In particular, building shared libs results in libs with a .so
extension, which is not the PA-RISC convention. How can get I get my
Boost Build to produce shared libs with .sl extensions on PA-RISC and
.so extensions on IA64? I looked through both the bjam source and the
boost-build jam files, but I just don't understand where the extension
for shared libs is set.

On a slightly different note, I made the following additions to get
PIC code for shared libs:
In tools/builtin.jam, I added:
feature pic : off on : propagated ;

In tools/acc.jam, I added:
flags acc CFLAGS <pic>off : ;
flags acc CFLAGS <pic>on : +Z ;

This seems to work, but I'm not sure that "feature pic" belongs in
tools/builtin.jam. Is this the right place? I also noticed a commented
out line in acc.jam regarding an old feature called shared-linkable
that no longer exists, which appears to have done the same thing.
Should I resurrect the old feature?

Thanks,
Jim Gallagher