[Boost-users] Problem building archive libs for mipspro

From: Richard Hadsell (hadsell_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-27 15:28:04

I am trying to upgrade from Boost 1.30.0 to 1.31.0.  My main interest is 
in the Regex library.  I was pleased to build its libraries successfully 
for intel-linux, both .a and .so forms, using bjam.

When trying to build the libraries for mipspro, it fails to build the .a 
forms, because it is trying to use ranlib.  The bjam system is too 
unfamiliar to me to debug it, so I'm hoping somebody else can give me a 
remedy.  (Note: I built bjam from the source in tools/build/jam_src, as 
described in the docs.)

Here is the evidence:

69% bjam "-sTOOLS=mipspro" --stagedir=stage "-sBUILD=debug release <threading>single" stage
[snip]
mipspro-Archive-action bin/boost/libs/regex/build/libboost_regex.a/mipspro/debug/libboost_regex-mp-d-1_31.a

--- C++ prelinker: bin/boost/libs/regex/build/libboost_regex.a/mipspro/debug/c_regex_traits.o ---
[snip]
Ranlib bin/boost/libs/regex/build/libboost_regex.a/mipspro/debug/libboost_regex-mp-d-1_31.a
/bin/sh[2]: ranlib:  not found

    ranlib  bin/boost/libs/regex/build/libboost_regex.a/mipspro/debug/libboost_regex-mp-d-1_31.a 

...failed Ranlib bin/boost/libs/regex/build/libboost_regex.a/mipspro/debug/libboost_regex-mp-d-1_31.a...
...skipped <@boost!lib>libboost_regex-mp-d-1_31.a for lack of <@boost!libs!regex!build/libboost_regex.a/mipspro/debug>libboost_regex-mp-d-1_31.a...
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