Rene Rivera
MikeW wrote:
Thanks, but boost_1_33_1 is distributed with a 'configure' file, and it should be possible to set options on this to get a cross-build.
What makes you think it "should be possible"? The configure script is just a thin shell around the bjam commands. And by thin I mean it does not support all, or even many, of the build options possible when using bjam directly. Although technically you could setenv all the above variables James mentions, and then run configure+make.
Thank you, I must admit I had come to that conclusion. When I said "should be possible" I suppose I was expressing dissatisfaction with the extent to which the existing configure script supported the underlying bjam options. OK, I know, "if it doesn't suit you - write your own" ! I realise that the GNU build system is just one out of the many configuations that Boost attempts to support, I just wish it paid more than lip-service to it, since it appeared to build happily under my ARM-configured Buildroot setup ... except that the built libraries were all "arch=i386" ;-) Maybe as more people try to use Boost under the GNU build rather than as a command-line bjam build, this aspect will improve. Time pressures mean I won't be able to do this at the moment, will just have to hack in a command-line bjam build (or set env the lot ?) Regards, Mike