Re: [boost] [Report] 2749 regressions on RC_1_34_0 (2007-01-24)

From: Roland Schwarz (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-25 13:06:06

Nicola Musatti schrieb:

> containing the patch. I also hope to convince Robert Ramey to let me patch the
> Serialization Jamfile.v2 file so that the location of Spirit 1.6 may be
> specified by means of an environment variable, as it was under BBv1 .

I just looked into my Jamfile.v2 from the thread_rewrite branch where I 
had to solve a similar problem. In that case I tried to specify 
different APIS. The trick I think can be used for requiring different 
serialization API's too.

Here's a sketch how it would work:

In the requirements one would specify:

lib whatever
   : whatever.cpp
   : # requirements
     <toolset>msvc-6.5:<spirit-api>1.6
   ;

In an include file something like:

feature.feature spirit-api : 1.6 ;

Following a rule that modifies the include path if the version is 
available. Details can be looked up in the thread_rewrite branch under

libs/thread/build/thread.jam

What do you think?

Roland

> Alternatively it is possible to modify the Borland 5.8.2 entry in
> user-config.jam and add the appropriate option there.
> 
> If you have no objections, I'd like to take a few days to see if I can pull this
> through, say until Volodya gives the heads up about the regression tools.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nicola Musatti
> 
> 
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