Re: [Boost-users] Building boost with a non-default compiler?

From: Dan Katz (dakatz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-08 15:09:31

On  7 Jul 2008, dave_at_[hidden] wrote:

>> boost_1_35_0$ ./configure --with-toolset=gcc-3.3 --prefix=./BUILT
>
> Looks good to me.
>
>> Building Boost.Jam with toolset gcc-3.3... ./configure:
>> ./bootstrap/jam0: No such file or directory tools/jam/src//bjam
>
> Urr.  Looks like the procedure for building Boost.Jam is using a
> Boost.Build toolset name.  They are distinct sets.  Doug?
>
[...]
>
> You got the command right; there's a bug in the configure script.
>
> Try changing the line in ./configure that reads
>
> # Determine the toolset, if not already decided
> if test "x$TOOLSET" = x; then
>
> so that it reads:
>
> # Determine the toolset, if not already decided
> if test "x$TOOLSET" != y; then
>
> This is a hack, but it will build bjam with your system compiler no
> matter which toolset you've requested for your Boost build.  That
> should be fine.

So I made the change to the configure script that you suggested and then
ran it.  Things seemed to work okay at first but soon went awry:

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$ ./configure --with-toolset=gcc-3.3 --prefix=./BUILT
Building Boost.Jam with toolset gcc... tools/jam/src/bin.linuxx86/bjam
Detecting Python version... 2.2
Detecting Python root... /usr
Unicode/ICU support for Boost.Regex?... not found.
Backing up existing Boost.Build configuration in user-config.jam.1
Generating Boost.Build configuration in user-config.jam...
Generating Makefile...

$ make install
[...lots of stuff...]
...skipped <pBUILT/lib>libboost_serialization-gcc295-mt.so for lack of <pBUILT/lib>libboost_serialization-gcc295-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0...
...skipped <pBUILT/lib>libboost_wserialization-gcc295-mt.so for lack of <pBUILT/lib>libboost_wserialization-gcc295-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0...
common.hard-link BUILT/lib/libboost_signals-gcc295-mt.so
common.hard-link BUILT/lib/libboost_prg_exec_monitor-gcc295-mt.so
...skipped <pBUILT/lib>libboost_test_exec_monitor-gcc295-mt.a for lack of <pBUILT/lib>libboost_test_exec_monitor-gcc295-mt-1_35.a...
...skipped <pBUILT/lib>libboost_unit_test_framework-gcc295-mt.so for lack of <pBUILT/lib>libboost_unit_test_framework-gcc295-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0...
...skipped <pBUILT/lib>libboost_thread-gcc295-mt.so for lack of <pBUILT/lib>libboost_thread-gcc295-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0...
...skipped <pBUILT/lib>libboost_wave-gcc295-mt.so for lack of <pBUILT/lib>libboost_wave-gcc295-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0...
...skipped <pBUILT/lib>libboost_date_time-gcc295-mt.so for lack of <pBUILT/lib>libboost_date_time-gcc295-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0...
...skipped <pBUILT/lib>libboost_system-gcc295-mt.so for lack of <pBUILT/lib>libboost_system-gcc295-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0...
...skipped <pBUILT/lib>libboost_filesystem-gcc295-mt.so for lack of <pBUILT/lib>libboost_filesystem-gcc295-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0...
...skipped <pBUILT/lib>libboost_graph-gcc295-mt.so for lack of <pBUILT/lib>libboost_graph-gcc295-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0...
...skipped <pBUILT/lib>libboost_iostreams-gcc295-mt.so for lack of <pBUILT/lib>libboost_iostreams-gcc295-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0...
...skipped <pBUILT/lib>libboost_program_options-gcc295-mt.so for lack of <pBUILT/lib>libboost_program_options-gcc295-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0...
...skipped <pBUILT/lib>libboost_python-gcc295-mt.so for lack of <pBUILT/lib>libboost_python-gcc295-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0...
common.hard-link BUILT/lib/libboost_regex-gcc295-mt.so
...failed updating 57 targets...
...skipped 52 targets...
...updated 5741 targets...
Not all Boost libraries built properly.
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And when I went to look in BUILT/lib, I didn't find many libraries and
the ones I did find claimed that they were for gcc-2.95 (the default)
rather than for the gcc-3.3 compiler I'd specified:

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$ ls BUILT/lib
libboost_prg_exec_monitor-gcc295-mt-1_35.so
libboost_prg_exec_monitor-gcc295-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0
libboost_prg_exec_monitor-gcc295-mt.so
libboost_regex-gcc295-mt-1_35.so
libboost_regex-gcc295-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0
libboost_regex-gcc295-mt.so
libboost_signals-gcc295-mt-1_35.so
libboost_signals-gcc295-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0
libboost_signals-gcc295-mt.so
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More issues in the configure script?  Or is there something else I need
to patch?

Thanks!

Dan