[boost] ATTN Doug: Re: [1.33.0] Final release schedule

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-29 22:56:05

Robert Ramey wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
>>Now that I read your description of history, it seems to be just an
>>artifact of your unwillingness to use Rene's fix.
> 
> Lets make simple, just fix bjam so that one can use the DEPENDS clause to 
> condition the invocation of one test upon the successful completion of 
> another test.  Thats the way I would expect the DEPENDS clause to work from 
> looking at the bjam documentation.  I never suggested it before because I 
> assumed that the problem would solve itself with bjam v2.  But that's not 
> here yet.

I could certainly add something, like DEPENDS, that makes it seem easy. 
As long as Doug approves me messing with the build system at this time.

> While we're on the issue of Jamfiles, I did change my local Jamfile for 
> comeau compilers to use static libraries and it seemed to get much better 
> results.  I could check in my change but I seem to recall that a change was 
> going to be made in the como ... vc-7_1 toolset to address this.  So far 
> test results show this hasn't happened.  So I'm confused as to whether to 
> check in this change.

The changes where deeper than that. They involved changing the the 
functionality of BBv1 itself. The changes I posted for this worked only 
as far as user level building went. But they break testing building. 
Doug said to not pursue spending time on that avenue, so I didn't. Yes 
it is considerably easier to account for that particular issue on the 
project Jamfiles. So I'd say check in your changes.

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