Re: [boost] Re: configuration problems

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-15 22:28:48

If you're on a Mac, I'm pretty sure OS X will fix that problem. That's due
out in, what, 9 days?

My opinion only: the difficulty of producing cross-platform
build/config/install tools with earlier versions of MacOS is so great as to
justify limiting support to OS X unless someone steps up and is willing to
make customized tools for earlier versions.

-Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Kalb" <jonk_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 4:00 PM
Subject: [boost] Re: configuration problems

> 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
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