Re: [boost] Re: changing aCC-Link-action

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-12 05:02:28

>I have attached the updated acc-tools.jam file located in
>boost_1_31_0/tools/build/v1.

>+z - to make the compiler generate PIC (position independent code) --
>required for shared libraries.

That should be conditional on us actually building a shared library - we
build static ones as well, not to mention executables.

>-w - suppresses warning messages

What all of them?

>And to the link line:
>
>-b - to tell the linker to generate a shared library instead of an
>executable. I'm assuming that aCC-Link-action is only used for
>generating shared library?

Again we need to make this conditional on us actually building a shared lib,
Rene, Dave, how does one do that?

Thanks, for persisting with this,

John.