[Boost-users] Re: Building boost for 64-bit on AIX

From: Bart (bartmann.nsd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-24 15:17:21

On Mon, 23 May 2005 22:38:25 -0700, Patrik Jonsson wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to build boost (1.32.0) on an IBM SP2 under AIX5, using the 
> 64-bit ABI. This is troublesome. I do:
> 
> bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc" "-sGXX=g++ -maix64 -pthread" --prefix=$HOME 
> --libdir=$HOME/lib64-gcc --includedir=$HOME/include-gcc install
> 
> But it doesn't work. I get loads of errors like:
> 
> gcc-Link-action 
> bin/boost/libs/date_time/build/libboost_date_time.so/gcc/debug/shared-linkable-true/libboost_date_time-gcc-d-1_32.so
> ld: 0711-738 ERROR: Input file 
> bin/boost/libs/date_time/build/libboost_date_time.so/gcc/debug/shared-linkable-true/greg_month.o:
>         XCOFF32 object files are not allowed in 64-bit mode.
> collect2: ld returned 8 exit status
> 
>     set -e
>     
> LIBPATH=bin/boost/libs/date_time/build/libboost_date_time.so/gcc/debug/shared-linkable-true:$LIBPATH 
> 
>     export LIBPATH
>     "g++"  -maix64 -pthread    -g -fPIC -shared  -o 
> "bin/boost/libs/date_time/build/libboost_date_time.so/gcc/debug/shared-linkable-true/libboost_date_time-gcc-d-1_32.so"    
> "bin/boost/libs/date_time/build/libboost_date_time.so/gcc/debug/shared-linkable-true/greg_month.o" 
> "bin/boost/libs/date_time/build/libboost_date_time.so/gcc/debug/shared-linkable-true/greg_weekday.o" 
> "bin/boost/libs/date_time/build/libboost_date_time.so/gcc/debug/shared-linkable-true/date_generators.o"       
> 
>    
> 
> ...failed gcc-Link-action 
> bin/boost/libs/date_time/build/libboost_date_time.so/gcc/debug/shared-linkable-true/libboost_date_time-gcc-d-1_32.so...
> ...skipped <@boost!lib64-gcc>libboost_date_time-gcc-d-1_32.so for lack 
> of 
> <@boost!libs!date_time!build/libboost_date_time.so/gcc/debug/shared-linkable-true>libboost_date_time-gcc-d-1_32.so...
> 
> It seems it's using -maix64 ok when trying to build the library, but not 
> when compiling... Can anyone tell me what the proper way of building 
> boost under these conditions are?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> /Patrik Jonsson

When you attempted to build the library, were there several
'gcc-C++-action' statements before the 'gcc-Link-action' statements?

The messages above make it appear as if the compiling step was skipped.

You could try using the '-a' option. It will force everything to be
recompiled.

Bart