The ebuild assumes that the operating system is just a linux/arch. Needed changes linux${arch} could be changed to *, That way doesn't matter the system binary dir for bjam for macosx the target should be changed and from "gcc" be set as "darwin" install -D and cp -a aren't supported by the bsd toolchain. doins -r should be a useful replacement
ok ill make the icc/gcc for the linking a var, then we can add darwin w/o problem but since i have no idea about either problem you would have to lend me a hand to make sure this all actually works, since i wouldnt be able to test any of this i would have to know what the full name of the libs are on darwin/fbsd since i use --layout=system for the short names w/o the toolset name, but i can not assume the toolsetname is darwin/fbsd gcc is gcc intel-linux is icc darwin is ? the linux${arch} is the least of our problems :) i dont know if you would rather make changes you can verify on fbsd/osx and i just verify icc/gcc still work as expected? taking care of boost right now is all i have time for w/o the fbsd/osx compliance, all i'd need is a little assistance to make things smooth tell me how you think this would work best :)
Created attachment 53158 [details, diff] Some changes here an intitial patch, the install -D is still present and should be replaced. actually boost cvs is the only one that builds correctly on macosx. osx people, I won't have access on a macosx system for some time, please make sure there isn't anything wrong.
im actually very interested on boost cvs, some issues i am seeing with our binutils > 2.15.90.0.* and the boost libs that are only built as .a, those which build as shared libs as well never see this gnu.linkonce errors on linking and i was told serialization in cvs does now build both just gotta find some time to make a snapshot and build it i suppose i'll be looking over the changes later, now i need to take care of mucho car things :/
the link errors were fixed with patches to gcc, after the next revision to the boost ebuild i'll dive into this
please test http://dev.gentoo.org/~morfic/boost-1.32.0-r3.ebuild
no objections, i consider this fixed, adding os x keyword when testing there is done
