[boost] Re: Intel toolset / library names

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-04 09:46:51

David Abrahams wrote:

>> 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.

Maybe, the right way is to write "configure.py" which will create
user-config.jam appropriate to the current system?

- Volodya