Re: [Boost-build] Troubles when trying to cross compile boost 1.3.6 serialization package on CYGWIN for PowerPC

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Troubles when trying to cross compile boost 1.3.6 serialization package on CYGWIN for PowerPC
From: Ivo Faldini (Ivo.Faldini_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-27 08:29:24

Hi ,
> > Now I still have a problem that I didn't solved yet and I would 
> > like to ask: packages are built with .dll suffix instead of .so
suffix. 
> > I would like to know how to instruct bjam to use .so suffix instead
of 
> > .dll sufix ( I don't want to only rename the *.dll into *.so because
I 
> > don't know is it is enough)? 
> Renaming .dll into .so won't work, I think, since the name encoded
inside 
> the libraries is still .dll. 
> There's no easy solution for this problem using 1.36. You can replace 
> tools/build/v2 with the content found in SVN HEAD, and then run bjam
as: 
> bjam <other options> target-os=linux 
> and this should cause the right extension to be used. Can you try
this? 
> - Volodya 
I was not able to do the test because I tried to do the following :
C:\Temp\boost_latest>svn co http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk HEAD

And got:

svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/boost/trunk'
svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/boost/trunk': could not connect to server
(http://svn.boost.org)

I'm not able to get the svn version ( and taking one file by one through
web browser it's not relevant...) because I'm under
firewall/internet-proxy... I don't know how to instruct svn  to access
use proxy internet options.

I may try downloading + testing  against the new beta (1.37)... ( that's
more updated than 1.36 but maybe is not as updated as the svn HEAD
itself)...
Do you have a snapshot of the svn somewhere?

TIA,

Ivo Faldini