Re: [Boost-build] regex build problem

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] regex build problem
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-05 11:21:22

Steven Watanabe wrote:

> AMDG
> 
> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> On Tuesday 05 May 2009 08:04:55 Carolina Parada wrote:
>>   
>>> I have been having a hard time succesfully building boost in my machine. I
>>> have Mac 10.4.11, and I downloaded boost_1_39_0. The error is below. Thanks
>>> in advance for any help!
>>>
>>> gcc.link.dll
>>> /Users/carolina/tools/boost_1_39_0/bin/boost/bin.v2/libs/regex/build/gcc-4.0.1/release/threading-multi/libboost_regex-gcc40-mt-1_39.dylib
>>> i686-apple-darwin8-g++-4.0.1: unrecognized option '-shared'
>>> /usr/bin/ld: unknown flag: -h
>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>     
>>
>> Please use the darwing toolset; you can request it with toolset=darwin on boost.build command
>> line. The above attempts to use FSF gcc, which is not what you have.
>>   
> 
> Can we please make darwin the default toolset on OSX?

Reasonable idea. Carolina, did you use bootstrap.sh + bjam when building?
If so, can you post the content of project-config.jam file, found in the
root of the source tree?

Thanks,
Volodya