Re: [boost] <library-file> & gcc-tools.jam

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-22 03:20:54

David Abrahams wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Toon Knapen" <toon.knapen_at_[hidden]>
> 
> 
>>In gcc-tools.jam (and almost all others) the content of the 
>><library-file> flag is stored in the NEEDLIBS variable.
>>This does not work however.
>>
> 
> It used to work.

Sorry, I've drawn my conclusiont to quicly ;-(

It does work but I expected that the content of <library-file> would end 
up at the end of the link-line instead of at the beginning (since I use 
it for linking with external libs, I need it at the end ; the content of 
<find-library> does end up at the end)

Also NEEDLIBS is used twice to workaround circular dependency problems 
(as you state in the comments). Is this really necessary. Storing the 
content of <find-library> in another variable, say FINDLIBRARY and 
replacing the last of both NEEDLIBS in the link-line with FINDLIBRARY, 
every still works and it seems like a better solution to me. I guess you 
did this to workaround some problem but I can't find the discussion in 
the archive so I might still miss something)

toon