Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-18 04:58:38

David Abrahams wrote:
>> Exactly, the idea was to enhance the script to handle
>> CXX/CXXFLAGS/LDFLAGS etc, so users could build with compilers not
>> necessarily supported by Boost.Build yet.
>
> There's no chance of that.  BB is not prepared to run arbitrary
> compilers, and make just invokes bjam.

Sure, but with a "generic" toolset that used CXX/CXXFLAGS etc to run an 
arbitrary compiler, we surely could support that?

John.