To anyone who is interested: With the assistance of a huge number of very useful people, I've sorted out how to successfully install the boost 1.32 package on Mac Darwin with gcc 3.3. There are two problems to solve: 1. some libraries are made but not usable because of errors like: /sw/include/boost/numeric/ublas/vector_expression.hpp:1837: error: due
to a defect in the G++ 3.2 ABI, G++ has assigned the same mangled name to twodifferent types In file included from /sw/include/boost/numeric/ublas/matrix.hpp:23, from conftest.cc:100: /sw/include/boost/numeric/ublas/matrix_expression.hpp:5156: error: due to a defect in the G++ 3.2 ABI, G++ has assigned the same mangled name to two different types configure:23533: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */
The solution is to put -fabi-version=0 into your CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, rebuild bjam, and install boost with the rebuilt bjam. 2. Install hangs on xml_grammar. The solution is outlined in http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg76758.php Or include the following: <darwin><release><inline>off Thanks to everyone who helped out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------- Rebecca Bendick, Ph.D. Bullard Laboratories University of Cambridge Madingley Road CAMBRIDGE CB3 0EZ United Kingdom bendick@esc.cam.ac.uk