Re: [Boost-users] Building Boost 1.34.1 on Solaris 10/SPARC

From: Bjørn Roald (bjorn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-04 00:41:44

Boris wrote:

> Thanks for your help! I could build Boost 1.34.1 successfully -  
> stdlib=sun-stlport did the trick. After reading a comparison between  
> libCstd and libstlport at  
> http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/cmp_stlport_libCstd.html it  
> might be a good idea for Boost to automatically choose stlport when Boost  
> is built on Solaris?

Yes, but the better sulution is for sun to do it in their compiler. They 
can let users select the old library as an option if they need the 
backword compatibillity.  As it seems to me Sun has no plans to get that 
library fixed, so why keep it as default?

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Bjørn