Python tests fail to link on QNX due to missing socket functions

[Niklas Angare <li51ckf02@…>]

When running the regression tests on QNX 6.5.0, several tests fail to link with errors like "undefined reference to `getsockopt'".

You need to link to the "socket" library to use socket functions on QNX. The Asio tests for example do this.

Sample error output: http://www.boost.org/development/tests/release/developer/output/NA-QNX650-qcc-gnu0x-boost-bin-v2-libs-python-test-bases-test-qcc-debug.html

I'd gladly test a patch or run the trunk tests.

[Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve]

Sorry I don't have access to a QNX platform. If you need help working out the patch, could you ask at the boost developer list?

[Niklas Angare <li51ckf02@…>]

QNX is a Unix-like OS so it's not that exotic. You just need to make sure the linker command-line contains -lsocket.

I've created a patch that fixes the problem by linking all tests to the socket lib, even though only the following tests needed it:

bases
exec
exec-dynamic
import_
operators
pointee
pointer_type_id_test
upcast

The fix is based the build file for the Asio tests, ​http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/libs/asio/test/Jamfile.v2.

[Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve]

Thanks for the patch. It is checked in as trunk rev. 72173

If there are no problems I'll merge it into the release branch in a few days.

[Niklas Angare <li51ckf02@…>]

Thanks. All tests except "operators" pass on trunk now. But that seems to be a separate problem.

[Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve]

Merged to release branch with rev. 72277