[Monotone-devel] Problems compiling on Solaris 9 with GCC 3.3.2

[Will Robertson]

Hi,
 I've managed to compile and use Monotone on Gentoo Linux, once I'd  
learnt about the '-O0' requirement with crypto++, and am now trying to  
the same at work on Solaris 9 with GCC 3.3.2.  (If there are any Gentoo  
users out there who'd like to try out my ebuild for it, I'd be happy to  
post it)

 I'm having problems getting Boost to compile -- which may be related  
to GCC3 on Solaris defaulting to using Solaris 'ld' (/usr/ccs/bin/ld)  
which has problems with GCC3's translation of -shared & -static  
together -- but it only seems to be a problem in the test-suite.
 I know I might be posting to the wrong list, but does anyone have any  
ideas how to persuade it to use GNU ld, for a start, but also whether  
it even matters to Monotone if this part of Boost hasn't worked?  And  
thridly whether Monotone has any similar dependencies on GNU ld?

 I'll keep trying in the meantime, but I'd appreciate any pointers, or  
helpful retelling of experiences.
--
Will

PS  Can I make an idle complaint about Boost.Jam, as well?  It does  
seem more of a pain than some autoconf './configure' scripts I've  
played with, which is a shame 'cause the libraries themselves are  
fantastic!