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@@ -340,9 +340,9 @@ choose newly from the table below.</p>
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<tr><th class="head">Toolset
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal">acc</tt></td>
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<td>Hewlett Packard</td>
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-<td>Only very recent versions are
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-known to work well with Boost</td>
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+<td>Only very recent versions are known to work well with Boost</td>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal">borland</tt></td>
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<td>Borland</td>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal">como</tt></td>
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<td>Comeau Computing</td>
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-require <a class="reference external" href="../../tools/build/index.html">configuring</a> another
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+<td>Using this toolset may require <a class="reference external" href="../../tools/build/index.html">configuring</a> another
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+toolset to act as its backend.</td>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal">darwin</tt></td>
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<td>Apple Computer</td>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal">gcc</tt></td>
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<td>The Gnu Project</td>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal">hp_cxx</tt></td>
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<td>Hewlett Packard</td>
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-operating system.</td>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal">intel</tt></td>
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<td>Intel</td>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal">sun</tt></td>
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-<td>Sun</td>
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-<td>Only very recent versions are
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-Boost.</td>
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+<td>Oracle</td>
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+<td>Only very recent versions are known to work well with
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+Boost. Note that the Oracle/Sun compiler has a large number
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+of options which effect binary compatibility: it is vital
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+that the libraries are built with the same options that your
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+appliction will use. In particular be aware that the default
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+standard library may not work well with Boost, <em>unless you
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+are building for C++11</em>. The particular compiler options you
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+need can be injected with the b2 command line options
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+<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">cxxflags=``and</span> ``linkflags=</tt>. For example to build with
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+the Apache standard library in C++03 mode use
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+<tt class="docutils literal">b2 <span class="pre">cxxflags=-library=stdcxx4</span> <span class="pre">linkflags=-library=stdcxx4</span></tt>.</td>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal">vacpp</tt></td>
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<td>IBM</td>
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Daniel James