id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
12490	remove building  regex library statically with toolset sun in libs/regex/build/Jamfile.v2	Aparna Kumta <aparna.kumta@…>	John Maddock	"Compiling log library with Oracle Developer Studio compiler in 64 bit mode, we see the following failure:

CC ... -m64 -KPIC -o libboost_log_setup.so.1.62.0 ... settings_parser.o.... libboost_regex.a ...

ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_H44: file libboost_regex.a(cpp_regex_traits.o): symbol .data (section): invalid shared object relocation type: ABS44 code model unsupported 

...

In libs/regex/build/Jamfile.v2, removing the following line, resolves the issue.
<toolset>sun:<link>static
"	Bugs	closed	Boost 1.64.0	regex	Boost Development Trunk	Problem	fixed		sergey.sprogis@…