Re: [Boost-build] toolsets and tools location selection

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-14 06:32:19

Gennadiy Rozental wrote:

[Gennadiy, I've accidentally first sent this message
personally, not on list. Sorry for duplicate copy]

> 
> "Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:feso6t$f1k$1_at_ger.gmane.org...
>>> IMO c++-compile-command is misleading. What you are looking for is "path
>>> to the compiler executable"
>>
>> Why? It's exactly the command that can be executed to compile C++
>> sources.
> 
> No. Exact command includes whole nine yards of options, while this is onlt
> path to the executable. Am I wrong?

Well, wether a command includes options or not is not universally agreed on.
Importantly, given

        C:/a/b/c/d.exe

path to the executable, IMO, is C:/a/b/c

Further, you can very well provide something like:

        my_gcc_wrapper --time-limit=10 C:/a/b/c/d.exe 

as command, which is clearly not a path at all.

- Volodya