2013/7/3 Jürgen Hunold <jhunold@gmx.eu>

Hi Antony,

On Wednesday, 3. July 2013 19:41:08 Antony Polukhin wrote:
> Questions:
> * Setting testing.launcher or testing.runner did not work as expected. Can
> that be fixed or is there some workaround?

Can you please provide us more information? Did you try running b2 with "-d+2"
to get the full commandlines involved? It might be that the arguments to
"testing.launcher" need some more escaping and/or windows "\" path separators.
The feature itself works fine, I'm using it on linux for test runs under
valgrind. Some sample code would be fine, too. I could then try to do some
cross testing on obscure arm or even Raspberry Pi.

Command line did not changed much since last time:

run.py "--bjam-options=testing.launcher=d:/testing_boost_android/run_on_android.bat % -j8 -d+4 threadapi=pthread target-os=linux toolset=gcc-android" --bjam-toolset=msvc --pjl-toolset=msvc --runner=apolukhin-Android --incremental

run_on_android.bat looks like:

echo "Input argumentas are %*"
echo "Input argumentas are %*" >>D:\testing_boost_android\run_on_android_log.txt

Things that confuse me are the following lines in bjam.log "Executing using a command file and
the shell: cmd.exe /Q/C" and that I can not see output from 'run_on_android.bat' script.

> * How can I disable linking with rt?

I fear this is hardcoded into gcc.jam. But this can be disabled for Android,
if necessary.

That would be nice. I would prefer more generic solution, something like <not-link-with>rt option. It is required because some other libraries under Android are also put into libc.

Or we can cooperate somehow, I'll send my user-config.jam and some of the options may be put into b2.

BTW, if I put <threadapi>pthread in user-config.jam it is ignored. Is it OK?

> If there is no sane answer to those questions, then what are the plans for
> moving Boost to more adequate build system (CMake)?

Well, do not get me startet on cmake ;-) It has got cross compiling support
only recently. And it is a meta-buildsystem.

Oops, bad example :-)

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Best regards,
Antony Polukhin