[boost] Re: Intel toolset / library names

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-04 09:11:41

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> John Maddock wrote:
> 
> 
>>> using intel-win : 8.0-vc6 : : <compatibility>vc6 ;
>>> using intel-win : 8.0-vc7 : : <compatibility>vc7 ;
>>>
>>>And "8.0-vc6" and "8.0-vc7" will be the version in library name. If that
>>>version are  equal to what autolinking wants, there should be no problem.
>>
>>John runs screaming from the building......!
>>
>>OK, so the same compiler could produce any one of:
>>
>>"iw"
>>"iw-8.0"
>>"iw-8.0-vc7"
>>
>>This is *impossible* to handle with auto-linking and even worse than
>>version 1!
> 
> 
> Both in V1 and V2, Boost.Build user can specify any name/version for a
> compiler, and there's no way to prevent that. In addition, I can always
> make replace "cl.exe" with my own program which will invoke gcc.exe ;-)
> The point is: build system cannot be expected to determine toolset version
> automatically. 
> I think it's reasonable to ask a person building boost to provide explicit
> version numbers when initializing a toolset, no? (While msvc.jam has some
> logic to autodetect installed version from target path, this cannot be
> considered 100% reliable).

Some systems invoke the tools with -v to see what they tell you about 
the version.  It would be good to have that capability, but of course 
first we need someone to code up the portable popen.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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