I've recently been struggling to get boost-1.33.1 built on OpenBSD-current (I presume that the rest of this message also applies to -stable, but YMMV), and after much toiling and dumping of hours into a black hole, I think I have found a way to build boost without errors.
If you simply run $ bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc" you will encounter many, many errors. Some of these errors will go away simply by substituting c++ for gcc: $ bjam "-sTOOLS=c++" but there will still be errors. To get around those errors, cd to ~/libs/config (where '~' means the boost root dir) and do $ sh configure This will generate a file called 'user.hpp' which contains preprocessor tokens that will help boost build for your compiler+platform combination. It isn't entirely correct though. The 'user.hpp' that is generated from the configure script will not alleviate problems in building: a) threaded libraries (particularly the threads library) b) wchar_t-based regex To get multithreaded libraries, just go down to the group of #define's in 'user.hpp' and add #define BOOST_HAS_THREADS I haven't yet found a way to make regex build with wchar_t support, so I disabled it by adding this to 'user.hpp': #define BOOST_NO_WREGEX This obviously won't help you understand what's really going on, but hopefully someone else who has been having trouble might find this information to be helpful. -- Benjamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
