On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:41:44 +0300, Bjørn Roald
Boris wrote:
Thanks for your help! I could build Boost 1.34.1 successfully - stdlib=sun-stlport did the trick. After reading a comparison between libCstd and libstlport at http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/cmp_stlport_libCstd.html it might be a good idea for Boost to automatically choose stlport when Boost is built on Solaris?
Yes, but the better sulution is for sun to do it in their compiler. They can let users select the old library as an option if they need the backword compatibillity. As it seems to me Sun has no plans to get that library fixed, so why keep it as default?
If there are no plans for Sun to fix their old library no Boost user on Solaris will be able to build Boost out of the box as you always have to select stlport explicitly? That doesn't mean I don't sympathize with your idea of switching the default library on Solaris - but I don't think that it's going to happen as backward compatibility seems to be really important to them. Boris