Re: [Boost-users] Unable to build 1.53.0 Ubuntu Linux 10.04

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Unable to build 1.53.0 Ubuntu Linux 10.04
From: Michael Powell (mwpowellhtx_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-02-27 08:12:08

See below...

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Lars Viklund <zao_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 05:39:47AM -0600, Michael Powell wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am running GCC 4.4.3 (default?) distributed with Ubuntu Linux 10.04
> LTS.
> > I would like to build the latest Boost to keep up with the language and
> > library standards, because we'll need those on a project we're working on
> > (obviously), but it seems that we'll need to upgrade the GCC tool chain
> in
> > order to do this: plus it us necessary even helpful to have access to
> > lambda functors, expressions, etc, access Boost Phoenix (for Spirit2),
> and
> > so on. I've read how it's possible to upgrade the GCC tool chain, but it
> > worries me for obvious reasons.
>
> Well, it'd help if you'd mention what seems to be the problem. I doubt
> that all of Boost fails on that toolchain.
>
> Which libraries don't build/work correctly, and did you file bugs
> against them?
>

I generally just build all of them. I'll see if I can't document the build
output.

> > Also, building is one thing, the front end tool chain. We'll be cross
> > compiling to ArchLinux running on ARM. I've done some reading about this
> > issue and it seems that this is more of a back end concern. In other
> words,
> > as long as the thing builds, compiles and links with whatever tool chain,
> > language standard, compiler, etc, the cross compile should go well.
> > Specifically, I believe we're going with CodeBench, but if there are
> other
> > cross compilers available, that would be helpful to know as well.
>
> Cross-compiling tends to work decently as long as you point out your
> cross compiler in your build configuration. You might have to specify
> features like threadapi= and target-os=.
>

Good to know.

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