Re: [boost] C++11 variant of the gcc toolset?

Subject: Re: [boost] C++11 variant of the gcc toolset?
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-14 11:23:42

Marshall Clow wrote:
> I have this in in user-config.jam:
>
> using darwin : 11
> : "/Sources/gcc/gcc-4.8.2/bin/bin/g++"
> : <cxxflags>"-std=c++11"
> ;
>
> And I just use:
> b2 toolset=darwin-11

This works, but it's not as convenient as having a separate gcc11 toolset. 
Currently, toolset=gcc finds whatever g++ there is in the PATH, and 
automatically detects its version, so for instance, if I have g++ 4.5.3, it 
puts the compiler output into a gcc-4.5.3 directory, and if I then run b2 
with g++ 4.8.1 in the PATH, it can see that the previous test run is not the 
same, so it re-runs the tests, putting the result into a gcc-4.8.1 
directory. Which is exactly what I want. Ideally, the C++11 mode tests would 
go into gcc11-(detected version), for the same reason.

A similar problem occurs when I need to run several test runs using 
different #defines, but that's probably harder to solve. Ideally, if I 
define=THIS and define=THAT, the output should probably go into a 
define-a6d9ba0c subdirectory (similar to how threading=multi goes into 
threading-multi/.)