[boost] Re: configuration problems

From: Jon Kalb (jonk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-15 16:00:37

At 7:34 PM +0000 3/15/01, kevin_vanhorn_at_[hidden] wrote:

>So instead of writing a shell script, you write
>a C (or highly-portable C++) program that does the same thing using
>the "system" function from the standard library to call the user's
>compiler on the previously-mentioned code snippets.

Can you explain to me how you will use system() to "call the user's 
compiler" in a platform independent way? I would imagine that this is 
challenging given that the implementation of system() on my 
environment is:

int system(const char*)
{
     return(NULL);
}

-- 
jonk