Becky Bendick wrote:

I'm trying to install boost1.32 using the prebuilt bjam for mac darwin, but it seems to hang on

darwin-C++-action bin/boost/libs/serialization/build/libboost_serialization.a/darwin/release/xml_grammar.o

or perhaps this just takes hours, which seems unlikely. What am I doing wrong, and how do I fix it?

This is a known bug, that as far as I know doesn't have a solution (yet). When compiling with optimization, darwin gcc doesn't seem to complete. Because it works without the -O flag, it is believed to be a bug with the compiler, and a bug report has been submitted to apple. On my machine, I went into xml_grammar.cpp (and xml_wgrammar.cpp). Down near the bottom there is an explicit instantiation of a template. I put: #ifndef NDEBUG template class basic_xml_grammar<char>; #endif //NDEBUG This at least lets the compile finish. It probably means that if you link against the release version of the library, you will get missing symbols, but since I don't use the serialization library yet, it works for me. There is probably some way of fixing the Jamfile that prevents it from setting the optimization flag, maybe <darwin><*><optimization>off Or something like that, I didn't try. John =:->

Thanks, Becky ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Rebecca Bendick, Ph.D. Bullard Laboratories University of Cambridge Madingley Road CAMBRIDGE CB3 0EZ United Kingdom

bendick@esc.cam.ac.uk

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