Re: [Boost-testing] BBv2 and Caleb Epstein SunOS-5.10 - python - exec / gcc-4.1.2_sunos_i86pc

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-24 17:27:47

on Wed Oct 24 2007, "Caleb Epstein" <caleb.epstein-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/24/07, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>     Can anyone confirm that's what I'm seeing?  Caleb, could you try to
>     manually issue the 2nd link command, first replacing
>    
>       -Wl,-Bstatic -lrt -ldl
>    
>     with
>    
>       -Wl,-Bdynamic -lrt -ldl
>    
>     Can anyone explain why BB would be doing these two things differently?
>
> The -Bstatic is indeed the problem.  If I change the command to use -Bdynamic as you suggest,
> the command succeeds.
>
> As I've noted at least once before on this topic, Solaris doesn't provide static versions of
> system libraries, like the C runtime, pthreads, and librt as well.  It actually appears that not
> a single archive (.a) library is available under /usr/lib on this
> machine.

Thanks; can you try the enclosed patch to libs/python/test/Jamfile.v2,
which I *don't* expect to fix anything?



It will help me eliminate a possibility.

Thanks,
-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com