Hi all in this list, recently I was put into task to cross compile boost for ARM platform with GCC. My building platform is i386 Linux with gcc and cross compiling to arm Linux. Standard way for this kind of compilation is, that name of cross compiler (running under i386 but producing arm code) and all cross binary utilities are prefixed by target plarform, so like arm-linux-gcc, arm-linux-g++, arm-linux-ar, arm-linux-objcopy for arm-linux. And this is causing a bit of problem with boost. I can force GCC and GXX, but still have a problem with ar and objcopy. I've tried to setup GCC_BIN_DIRECTORY but it didn't work. So I've done a small patch to tools/build/v1/gcc-tools.jam adding GCC_PREFIX variable, that if set up, will prefix names of all tools with that prefix. So I can compile boost with bjam -sTOOLS=gcc -sGCC_PREFIX=arm-linux- stage May be it will be useful to add the same functionality to gcc-stlport-tools.jam or mingw. So please find attached changes. It is possible to include them into next boost release? By the way, the same problem appears when boost jam is used to compile some third-party libraries. Is this place good to talk about boost jam and its Jambase file? Vlad -- Vladimir Michl , ICQ# 312939054 Tel: +447793527010 +447906361574 +420608413590