Re: [boost] [config] auto-link tests

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-28 05:36:33

John Maddock wrote:

> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>> which is valid for msvc-7.1 but not msvc-8.0 builds for the former,
>>> but not the latter?
>>
>> What do you mean by "no the latter"? Is it skipped, or built in MT
>> mode or what? I don't think there's no code to do anything when
>> static runtime is used. What should happen in this case?
> 
> I don't know what should happen frankly.
> 
> It tries to build it but fails:
> 
> msvc.link
> ..\..\..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\config\test\link\test\link_test_static_sing
>
le_debug.test\msvc-8.0\debug\link-static\runtime-link-static\link_test_static_si
> ngle_debug.exe
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> 'liblink_test-vc80-mt-sgd-1_35.lib'
> 
> What's happening is that bjam is building lib's that are name-mangled for
> a single threaded build, but single threaded builds aren't supported by
> VC8 at all, so the auto-linking code goes off in search of the MT lib.

I can modify things so that on 8.0, you'll always get MT build.

- Volodya