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

From: Patrik Jonsson (patrik_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-25 13:46:53

Thanks for helping out! I've now spent two days trying to get this to 
build...

Rene Rivera wrote:

>
>>
>> Well, we do have <address-model>64
>
>
<address-model>64 ?!?!?

where the @#$(& are these options documented? I looked all over the 
boost installation web page for options, but the "gcc toolset 
configuration page" only mentions <cxxflags>. In fact, running google 
reveals no hits on the boost web site for <address-model>, just some 
mail lists... It would be easier for people to use the library if things 
like this were documented on the installation page.

> Yep.. And it was intended exactly for this situation.. Just didn't 
> have anyone that actually exercised this until now. Well at least no 
> one complained until now ;-)
>
> OK.. I've made some changes that will hopefully handle this particular 
> situation. Patrik if you want to try them out, the two files that you 
> need to replace are attached. Just put them into the */tools/build/v1 
> directory. And to get the functionality you need to invoke bjam 
> something like:
>
> bjam ... 
> "-sBUILD=<architecture>power/<address-model>64/<object-model>aix" ...
>
Ok, so I tried the new files, and it's not quite right:

warning: -maix64 and POWER architecture are incompatible

It seems I'm getting options  -mcpu=power -mpowerpc64 -maix64. The 
proper settings for my system would be -mcpu=power3 and -maix64 (which 
according to the gcc documentation implies -mpowerpc64 and -mpowerpc).

I tried using <architecture>power3 but that seems to remove all the 
options from the command line, so presumably that wasn't recognized.

/Patrik