Re: [Boost-build] Build fails with Borland/CodeGear 2007

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Build fails with Borland/CodeGear 2007
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-03 04:34:05

On Monday 03 November 2008 12:25:46 Hendrik Fuß wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'd greatly appreciate some help with bjam and Borland 2007 under 
> Windows XP. I've downloaded boost_1_36_0 and the precompiled version of 
> bjam for NT/x86. Running
> 
>     ./bjam.exe --toolset=borland
> 
> out of the box produces a few error messages, which prevent some 
> libraries to be built. The error messages are mostly about wave and 
> spirit, but also the math library doesn't build for lack of "long 
> double" support, and there seem to be more problems in other libraries.

Looking at: http://www.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/summary.html
it appears that borland is not doing much better in the automated tests.

Sprit and Wave are libraries that are known to be demanding on the compiler
quality, and "long double" support is something you either have or not.

- Volodya