Boost 1.41.0 can't build on Mac OS X 10.7

[s.graves@…]

I ran into problems when trying to build an older boost library (1.41.0) on the new Mac OS X 10.7 (lion).

The boost build process failed in the ./bjam step due to not allowing 10.7 as a known macosx-version:

sarah $ ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/Users/sarah/myboost1.41

sarah $ ./bjam

/Users/sarah/myboost1.41/boost_1_41_0/tools/build/v2/build/feature.jam:483: in feature.validate-value-string from module feature

error: "10.7" is not a known value of feature <macosx-version>
error: legal values: "10.6" "10.5" "10.4" "10.3" "10.2" "10.1" "iphone-3.2" "iphonesim-3.2" "iphone-3.1.2" "iphonesim-3.1.2" "iphone-3.1" "iphonesim-3.1" "iphone-3.0" "iphonesim-3.0" "iphone-2.2.1" "iphonesim-2.2.1" "iphone-2.2" "iphonesim-2.2" "iphone-2.1" "iphonesim-2.1" "iphone-2.0" "iphonesim-2.0" "iphone-1.x"

/Users/sarah/myboost1.41/boost_1_41_0/tools/build/v2/build
/property.jam:276: in validate1 from module property

/Users/sarah/myboost1.41/boost_1_41_0/tools/build/v2/build/property.jam:301: in validate from module property

/Users/sarah/myboost1.41/boost_1_41_0/tools/build/v2/build/property.jam:310: in property.validate-property-sets from module property

/Users/sarah/myboost1.41/boost_1_41_0/tools/build/v2/build/toolset.jam:151: in flags from module toolset

/Users/sarah/myboost1.41/boost_1_41_0/tools/build/v2/tools/darwin.jam:266: in init-available-sdk-versions from module darwin

/Users/sarah/myboost1.41/boost_1_41_0/tools/build/v2/tools/darwin.jam:209: in darwin.init from module darwin

/Users/sarah/myboost1.41/boost_1_41_0/tools/build/v2/build/toolset.jam:38: in toolset.using from module toolset

/Users/sarah/myboost1.41/boost_1_41_0/tools/build/v2/build/project.jam:884: in using from module project-config

project-config.jam:12: in modules.load from module project-config
/Users/sarah/myboost1.41/boost_1_41_0/tools/build/v2/build-system.jam:241: in load-config from module build-system

/Users/sarah/myboost1.41/boost_1_41_0/tools/build/v2/build-system.jam:407: in load-configuration-files from module build-system

/Users/sarah/myboost1.41/boost_1_41_0/tools/build/v2/build-system.jam:538: in load from module build-system
/Users/sarah/myboost1.41/boost_1_41_0/tools/build/v2/kernel
/modules.jam:283: in import from module modules

/Users/sarah/myboost1.41/boost_1_41_0/tools/build/v2/kernel/bootstrap.jam:142: in boost-build from module

/Users/sarah/myboost1.41/boost_1_41_0/boost-build.jam:17: in module scope from module

[irudi@…]

Just add 10.7 to .macosx-versions in boost_1_40_0/tools/build/v2/tools/darwin.jam and it will build fine.

[viboes]

Has this been fixed?

[Marshall Clow]

Have we fixed 1.40?

I sincerely doubt it.

If I understand this ticket, we should close it as "wont fix".

There's a workaround here for patching the 1.40 distro, or the OP can use a more recent release.

[anonymous]

Dont forget Clang! :) I just saw that "toolset=clang" knows of neither paramters "mmacosx-version-min" nor "mmacosx-version". So I have to manually set the compiler flags in boost 1.53 when starting "b2":

MACOS_SDK="-mmacosx-version-min=10.7 -isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.7.sdk"; \

./b2 toolset=clang cxxflags="-stdlib=libc++ -std=c++11 $MACOS_SDK" linkflags="-stdlib=libc++ $MACOS_SDK"

Regards, Zenju