Re: [boost] Borland warnings while linking Boost.Test libs

From: Harold Howe (hhowe_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-21 08:24:22

> It's down to the way we invoke tlib from jam, we use the "update and add"
> command line options, which results in the warnings if the lib doesn't
> already exist.  On the other hand, if we don't use these options then tlib
> does the wrong thing if the lib already exists...
>
> I wonder if it would be better to just delete the lib file prior to each
> invocation of tlib?

I have makefiles  for Borland projects where I have taken exactly this
approach, and it seems to work fine. The only catch in my case was that
Borland's make would quit if I tried to delete a LIB file that didn't exist,
but overriding that behavior was easy enough.

h^2