On 15/05/07, Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:

Over at IRC, and on mailing list, it seems --toolset option confuses
folks -- they extrapolate the syntax and try to use "--link=static"
and so on.

I think we probably better either:

1. Rename --toolset to --autoconfigure-toolset, or something.
It might be better to disable auto-configuration for "toolset=foo" syntax
at the same time, to make "toolset" feature no longer "special".

2. Remove "--toolset" completely. Retain autoconfiguration
for "toolset=foo" and tell users to use "toolset=foo".

3. Allow command line options to override the settings that --toolset would otherwise use (ie. defaults/user-config.jam settings).

Is that impossible? Why (it _seems_ a reasonable concept)?

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Darren