Hi,

I'm attempting to compile the shared library version of boost-python on Solaris 2.6 using gcc2.95.3, Sun's ld, and python 2.1. The compilation works just fine, but the linking phase for creating libboost-python.so fails. Here is the relevant info for my compilation:

jam -sBOOST_ROOT=. -sTOOLS="gcc" -sPYTHON_ROOT=/home/dcarr/opt/python -sPYTHON_VERSION=2.1 -sPYTHON=/home/dcarr/opt/python/bin/python2.1

And where things go wrong...

gcc-Link-action ../../../libs/python/build/bin/libboost_python/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dyna mic/shared-linkable-true/libboost_python.so ld: fatal: library -lutil: not found ld: elf error: file .: elf_begin: I/O error: region read: Is a directory ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to ../../../libs/python/build/bin/libboost_python/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dyna mic/shared-linkable-true/libboost_python.so collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

g++ -g -fPIC -shared -o "../../../libs/python/build/bin/libboost_python/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dyn amic/shared-linkable-true/libboost_python.so" -L/home/dcarr/opt/python/lib/python2.1/config "../../../libs/python/build/bin/libboost_python/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dyn amic/shared-linkable-true/types.o" "../../../libs/python/build/bin/libboost_python/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dyn amic/shared-linkable-true/classes.o" "../../../libs/python/build/bin/libboost_python/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dyn amic/shared-linkable-true/conversions.o" "../../../libs/python/build/bin/libboost_python/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dyn amic/shared-linkable-true/extension_class.o" "../../../libs/python/build/bin/libboost_python/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dyn amic/shared-linkable-true/functions.o" "../../../libs/python/build/bin/libboost_python/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dyn amic/shared-linkable-true/init_function.o" "../../../libs/python/build/bin/libboost_python/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dyn amic/shared-linkable-true/module_builder.o" "../../../libs/python/build/bin/libboost_python/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dyn amic/shared-linkable-true/objects.o" "../../../libs/python/build/bin/libboost_python/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dyn amic/shared-linkable-true/cross_module.o" "../../../libs/python/build/bin/libboost_python/gcc/debug/runtime-link-dyn amic/shared-linkable-true/errors.o" -lutil -Wl,-rpath-link,.

I tried removing the -lutil since I figured it may not be necessary, but I got the exact same error message without the "-lutil: not found" message. As far as I can tell, I need to install glibc2 in order to link against the util library. The elf error, however, is a mystery to me. Any help would be much appreciated.

Dudley

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