Re: problems with posix

From: silvermangbs (silvermangbs_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-08 00:49:27

--- In Boost-Users_at_y..., "silvermangbs" <silvermangbs_at_y...> wrote:
> Since I don't have librt.so on my Solaris (2.6 & 8) machines, I am 
> trying to get Boost to use libposix4.so (which contains the same 
> functions). I have substituted "posix4" for "rt" in the configure and 
> configure.in files. I have done the same for the gcc-tools.jam file, 
> since, I am using gcc (2.95.2 and 3.2). All seems to go well until I 
> try to run the thread tests. Then, the linker is unable to find the 
> posix4 library! What's going on? libposix4.so is in /usr/lib, so, the 
> gcc compiler should be able to find it. Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Greg Silverman
> TRW
> Sunnyvale, CA

I have found out that the posix linking problem only occurs when
trying to build the runtime-link-static variants of the test programs.
Does this make sense, that a shared object like libposix4.so can not
be linked in staticly? Does it not make sense for the libs/thread/test
Jamfile to try and do that?

Greg Silverman
TRW
Sunnyvale, CA