Re: [Boost-users] trying to install Boost 1.33.1 on Solaris 5.9 + SunStudio 11

From: William Deegan (bdbaddog_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-30 12:53:09

On 1/30/06, Xavier.Abulker_at_[hidden] <Xavier.Abulker_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
> I'm trying to install Boost 1.33.1 on a Sun Solaris 5.9 Sunpro 11 and
> after the command:
> bjam "-sTOOLS=sunpro" install
> I receive the error message:
>
> >> Assertion:   (../lnk/init.cc, line 1032)
>     while processing /ftx/opt/SUNWspro/prod/include/CC/Cstd/rw/messages.cc
> at line 0.
>  >> Assertion:   (../lnk/init.cc, line 1032)
>     while processing /ftx/opt/SUNWspro/prod/include/CC/Cstd/rw/messages.cc
> at line 0.
>
> Do you know how I can solve this problem?
> It looks like Sun has released a patch to solve the error "Assertion:
> (../lnk/init.cc, line 1032)" but I can't find it for solaris 5.9 + Studio
> 11

I beleive you must use -library=stlport to be able to use BOOST with sun's
compilers. Check sun's compiler forums.
That said I had a lot of trouble and eventually couldn't get around BOOST's
regex giving compiler assertions when trying to
build the regex library for boost.

Anyone else have luck?