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From: Edward Diener (eddielee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-25 15:06:26


Rene Rivera wrote:
> Edward Diener wrote:
>
>> I realize that not too much work has done with Comeau as far as the
>> Boost build process is concerned but I think that something should be
>> done to circumvent dll builds of libraries for Comeau in the normal
>> Boost build process.
>
>
> Must have missed the first mention :-\ The attached patch to
> tools/build/v1/boost-base.jam prevents DLLs (and other shared objects)
> from getting built with como. Unfortunately this will cause regression
> testing to break as the test Jamfiles are not designed to handle
> dependent targets not getting built. So if Doug thinks it's important to
> fix this for release I can investigate further to make testing work
> under these conditions.

I did not mean that the change should take place in Boost build for 1.33 but I
think it needs to take place for the future for those who try to use Comeau. I
will bring up other Comeau issues in the Boost build NG.


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