Re: [Boost-users] Building Boost 1.59.0 on Solaris 11 with Solaris Studio 12.4

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Building Boost 1.59.0 on Solaris 11 with Solaris Studio 12.4
From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-20 08:40:10

> FYI, according to the Solaris Studio 12.4 C++ User's Guide, quote 
> "Many system libraries are only available as dynamic libraries in the 
> Oracle Solaris 64-bit compilation environment".
> Therefore, your change to use static libraries may not be feasible 
> when compiling on Solaris 11 x86 because it is 64-bit only.
>

I'm testing on Oracle x86 64-bit.  Note that link=static only changes 
the way Boost libraries are built, it has no effect on runtime/system 
library usage at all which will continue to be linked as shared libraries.

One more PR: https://github.com/boostorg/variant/pull/17

John.