Re: [Boost-build] Patch for building Boost 1.40 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Patch for building Boost 1.40 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
From: Michael Jackson (mike.jackson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-02 12:58:13

Part of your statements need some clarification:

  The version of GCC that OS X 10.6 ships with (4.2.x) WILL indeed  
create 4-way binaries (32 and 64 Bit PPC and x86) when using the 10.5  
SDK which is entirely possible for someone to do considering that a  
developer is using OS X 10.6 but wants to target earlier versions of  
OS X running on Both PPC and Intel hardware.

   I have not looked at the patches but you will probably need to  
interrogate what SDK the developer is using before hard-setting any  
rules about what arguments can and can not be used.

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Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson_at_[hidden]
BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio

On Oct 2, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Stuart A. Malone wrote:

> Today I took the time to patch my local copy of Boost 1.40 to allow  
> building under Snow Leopard.  You can see discussions about this  
> problem in places like:
>
> <http://continuous.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/building-boost-on-mac-os-x-10-6-with-xcode-3-2/ 
> >
>
> <http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20090903.114048.e961e539.en.html>
>
> My patches address two problems:
>
> - The -m64 option is incompatible with the generation of 32-bit  
> binaries
>
> - Versions of Apple's gcc 4.2 and later do not support generation of  
> ppc64 binaries
>
> Since my company uses both gcc 4.0 and gcc 4.2, I wanted a solution  
> that still supports ppc64 binaries when using gcc 4.0, but avoids  
> creating ppc64 binaries under gcc 4.2 and later.  I believe these  
> patches solve the problem and provide optimal behavior under both  
> Leopard and Snow Leopard, gcc 4.0 and 4.2.1.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> --Stuart A. Malone
>  Llamagraphics, Inc.
>  Makers of Life Balance personal coaching software
>  http://www.llamagraphics.com/
>
>
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