Re: [boost] [1.33.0] Partial thaw on branch for fixing theremainingfailures

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-30 10:05:36

John Maddock wrote:
>>[Wave]
>>As I've pointed out already the Wave tests on the vc-8_0 platform 
>>(gonzalo:
>>http://tinyurl.com/9jsmk) fail for reasons which are completely beyond my
>>comprehension. Bjam tries to link the test executables against a wrong
>>library which doesn't gets built (and which shouldn't get build). This 
>>error
>>did not occur during earlier vc-8_0 test runs executed by others. Any 
>>ideas?
> 
> I believe I have an idea what's happening here, in the Jamfile you have:
> 
>         <runtime-link>static
>         <threading>single
> 
> as build requirements, but vc8 does not have a single threaded runtime at 
> all, and I think it's this that's messing up the build system and the auto 
> linking code, let me try and explain:
[snip]
> If we're serious about VC8 being a release requirement, then we really 
> should fix the build system to handle it correctly,

Attached is a possible fix for tools/build/v1/boost-base.jam that 
handles the situation. If anyone with vc8 installed can try it that 
would be nice. As it will take me a while to clean up my hard drive to 
make room to install vc8 :-\

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