Re: [boost] Which Boost libraries support which compilers/versions

From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-30 20:18:14

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Edward Diener wrote:
> 
>> Peter Dimov suggested running the tests for each library in which one is
>> interested. Fair enough, but the compiler names and the version numbers
>> one needs to use for a particular compiler [...] are obscure to me.
> 
> Can you clarify that? Not that docs are stellar, but I fail to understand
> what can be obscure about *compiler names*. Did you see this:
> 
>         http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/reference/tools.html
> 
> which lists Boost.Build toolsets and corresponding product names. It also
> lists, for cases where compiler vendor went crazy with branding, what
> compiler version what product has. 

How does one specify a compiler version on the bjam command line ( not 
in a jamfile rule ) ? Is this documented anywhere in Boost Build ? 
Before you say that one never does that, consider the situation where I 
have three different versions of gcc ( or msvc ) and I want to run some 
jam file against the earliest one.