Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] mingw-cross-env-2.12 Boost 1.42 bug

[Volker Grabsch]

Joost Kraaijeveld <address@hidden> schrieb:
> It appears that there is a bug in the compilation of Boost. For every
> library that I want to link I get an error like:
> 
> /home/jkr/src/mingw-cross-env-2.12/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/lib/libboost_system-mt.a:
>  could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to add one
> 
> Running
> 
> "/home/jkr/src/mingw-cross-env-2.12/usr/bin/i686-pc-mingw32-ranlib 
> /home/jkr/src/mingw-cross-env-2.12/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/lib/libboost*"
> 
> manually appears to solve the problem. Should this not be done in a
> makefile?

This is really strange. Of course, the Makefile provided by Boost should
run i686-pc-mingw32-ranlib automatically. I'm not sure why it doesn't do
that on your system.

Is anyone on this list able to reproduce that problem?

Who is currently actively using Boost?


Greets,

    Volker

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