Re: [Boost-users] ld warnings when building boost on Fedora Core with gcc 3.4.4

From: Ken Roser (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-07 15:37:55

I finally got this to work.  Initially I built the gcc 3.4.4 compiler to 
install in the /usr/local/gcc/gcc34 directory.  It was that compiler I 
was using to build boost.  The problems resulted in incompatibilities 
with /usr/bin/ld and existing libraries on the system.  Since this was 
ld related, I determined which version of ld previously worked for me 
with this compiler before I upgraded to Fedora Core 4.  In my case it 
was 2.14.90.0.4.  I found the source at 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/binutils-2.14.90.0.4.1.tar.bz2 
.

Now the trick is to build binutils to install in the same directory 
structure as the compiler.  That way, the utilities are only used via 
invocations of the compiler tools.  To so, use the --prefix option when 
you run configure and specify the same prefix path that you did when 
building the compiler.  In my case this was /usr/local/gcc/gcc34.

John Maddock wrote:

>>I've tried the compat-gcc-32-c++ package to build boost, but I still
>>have the ld warnings originally reported.
>>Has anyone built a warning free boost on Fedora Core 4 with the gcc
>>3.4 compiler?
>>    
>>
>
>Probably not, the trouble is this isn't really a Boost problem, it's an 
>incompatibility between the binaraies in Fedora Core 4 and older versions of 
>gcc :-(
>
>Sorry we can't be more helpful, but a gcc or fedora specific newsgroup might 
>be more knowledgeable about the problem and possible fixes.
>
>John. 
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