Re: [boost] Heads up for Borland bjam users (Toolset changes)

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-17 11:05:25

At 07:48 AM 8/17/2002, John Maddock wrote:

 >I've made some changes to the Borland toolset:
 >
 >Problems with test programs thinking that they are GUI apps when they're
 >not
 >have now been fixed.
 >
 >I've added -Ve -Vx -a8 options to the command line by default.
 >
 >As a result libraries compiled with bjam should now be binary compatible
 >with the default IDE options.
 >
 >The bad news is that you must delete any previous object files / 
libraries
 >from your hard drive before building the test programs with bjam (or 
build
 >with the -a option), otherwise you will potentially have a mix of
 >binary-incompatible object files getting linked together.
 >
 >Hopefully this will make things better in the long run, albeit with some
 >short term pain (a rebuild).

The regression tests running now (Noon, Saturday, US East Coast time) will 
reflect the changes.

Due to a bug somewhere in the regression test toolchain, I'm having to 
delete all libraries and tests, and rebuild from scratch each run anyhow. 
So it really didn't matter.

Thanks for the fix,

--Beman