cannot build Boost using PGI compilers

[anonymous]

Trying to build actual Boost release 1.60.0 using PGI compilers (15.10-0 64-bit) we ran into two ICEs in the 'pgCC' compiler.

Asking the PGU support, we got:

15.10 is the last release of pgCC/pgcpp. pgc++ will be the only PGI C++ compiler for the coming years.

Huh, but 'pgCC' is hard-coded in 'boost_1_60_0/tools/build/src/tools/pgi.jam' file (line 28):

local l_command = [ common.get-invocation-command pgi : pgCC : $(command) ] ;

Trying to change out 'pgCC' by 'pgc++' we got dozens of errors like this:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ pgi.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/math/build/pgi/release/threading-multi/fminf.o

"pgc++" -Kieee -fpic -fPIC -fast -Mx,8,0x10000000 -Minform=warn -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_MATH_TR1_DYN_LINK=1 -DNDEBUG

-Dneed_IOV_MAX -I"." -I"libs/math/src/tr1" -c -o "bin.v2/libs/math/build/pgi/release/threading-multi/fminf.o" "libs/math/build/../src/tr1/fminf.cpp"

"./boost/config/compiler/gcc.hpp", line 152: catastrophic error: cannot open

source file "cstddef"

#include <cstddef>

1 catastrophic error detected in the compilation of "libs/math/build/../src/tr1/fminf.cpp".

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... well, 'pgc++' is not 'pgCC'.

Bottom line:

• Boost cannot be build with PGI compilers;
• Boost need an update to new PGI C++ copiler (if you wish to proceed to support PGI at all).

Merry Christmas!

• Paul