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

[graydon hoare]

Will Robertson wrote:
>  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?

well, you can always hack the solution up with a shell script in $PATH 
called 'ld' which does 'exec /path/to/gnu/ld $*' but that's pretty 
terrible. otherwise, hm.. which part of boost exactly is having this 
failure? libboost_unit_test_framework.a? we only need that for building 
unit_tests, so you could do without I suppose.

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

unfortunately I have no experience building boost on solaris. you might 
want to try the boost mailing lists, at www.boost.org.

-graydon