Re: Can we get rid of auto-linking?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-04-28 16:16:41

René Ferdinand Rivera Morell wrote:
> But I guess I'll go fix everyone's Jamfile's now. Because authors failed to do
> that over the past decades. Probably because all build systems are terrible. But
> likely stemming from C++ building being a giant mess. (insert old-man-
> screaming-at-clouds image here)

It's because Jamroot defined BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB, so nobody else had to.

I used to do the same in the CMake configs installed by b2 but switched to
library-specific variables due to... people complaining that autolink didn't work. :-)