Re: [boost] Re: Recent changes to intel compiler config

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-19 07:48:45

At 05:50 AM 11/18/2003, Markus Werle wrote:

 >David Abrahams wrote:
 >
 >> I guess that's their problem, since AFAICT we're unable to properly
 >> detect all the conditions which say whether wchar_t is supported.
 >
 >Though I appreciate any effort to create a new, modern and
 >reliable build system I strongly disagree here.
 >
 >A build system that has no autoconfiguration property like
 >GNU-autoconf/-make/-header kicks us right back to the
 >middle-age where we fiddled around with imakefiles and
 >other design problems that hinder plug'n'play.
 >
 >If I decide to have this or that flag on, I expect
 >no library in use to bail out, but to build smoothly.

That's a nice sentiment, but how do you propose Boost config (or any other 
configuration system) could reliably detect wchar_t status for the Intel 
compiler?

It isn't good enough to pre-analyze the compiler via a trial compilation, 
because compiler options may have changed when the real compilation is run. 

--Beman