Re: [boost] [python] threading-related failures on Linux

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-30 01:08:44

David Abrahams wrote:

>> It's tricky. Say you have:
>>
>>   if [ configure.has-lib foo ]
>>   {
>>   }
>>
>>   if [ configure.has-lib bar ]
>>   {
>>   }
>>
>> Them if you invoke bjam once for configuration, from 'configure.has-lib',
>> how that configure step knows that it should check not only for 'foo' but
>> also for 'bar', when 'has-lib' for bar is not yet called.
>>
>> So, you'd have to have a separate file describing configure checks, not
>> the above syntax. This is passable, but not ideal.
> 
> It's more important to make things work than to make them ideal.

Anyway, this is more about doing work, then which approach is better. I
don't have a pressing need for configure step yet, but if I run into a
personal project where configure is really needed, I'll see what can be
done.  

- Volodya