Re: [boost] Boost.Threads, the Boost.Build system and GCC

From: John Maddock (John_Maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-06-07 05:43:36

>If not, it sounds like a new simple feature definition is in order (see
features.jam). I think you'd want to put a default value for it in all of
the variant definitions so that subvariant directories were not created
when
the feature has its default value.
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Just a thought, but I don't think we should be forced to implement a Jam
feature for every compiler feature - it's a huge duplication of effort -
there are also some compilers (Sun's spring to mind) that have an
unfeasably large number of features, some way of injecting compiler command
line options in (using CXXFLAGS or whatever) would seem to be desirable
here: remember that we are not talking about portable features here.

- John Maddock
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