On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:46 AM Edward Diener via Boost-build <boost-build@lists.boost.org> wrote:

I do understand that the logic for 32-bit versus 64-bit setup may
already be in a toolset's jamfile, but this is not guaranteed for every
toolset. Even when it is in the toolset's jamfile it is rarely documented.

Let's reset a bit.. Since it's the intel-win toolset you're mucking with lets make it support the toolset requirements directly first. And then we can find a way to support that use case. Supporting the requirements is as easy as:

* Adding the extra "requirement *" argument to the init. Ex: <https://github.com/boostorg/build/blob/develop/src/tools/gcc.jam#L151>

* Passing that to "check-init-parameters". Ex: <https://github.com/boostorg/build/blob/develop/src/tools/gcc.jam#L278>

From there one can optionally add custom handling of default requirements. For example a default target-os: <https://github.com/boostorg/build/blob/develop/src/tools/gcc.jam#L284>

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