Re: [boost] [1.35.0] Build/install (attn: release team)

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-23 21:00:40

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Jurko Gospodnetic' wrote:
>>    Hi.
>>
>>> The topic of what gets built "out of the box" came up again, this time 
>>> on IRC. Some background... In the past we have gone the route of 
>>> building as much as possible when users do the manual Boost 
>>> build+install. That approach has gotten us a rather distressing 
>>> reputation of building being a real pain, mostly because it takes a long 
>>> time to build.
>>    Ok, it does take about 10-15 minutes to build everything on our 
>> machines here (Windows XP). But I personally like the simple way of 
>> building 'everything'.
> 
> Hm...
> 
> [...]
>>    Anyway... I would really hate it if someone decided to change the 
>> name mangling for different build types or if it became difficult to 
>> tell boost build to 'build all variants as it did before by default'.
> 
> It depends on what you consider difficult. It would mean specifying 
> something like:
> 
>    bjam release debug link=static ... etc.
> 
> But perhaps we can make this much simpler. How about adding an option 
> that selects how much is built with some easy to remember names? 
> Something like:
> 
>    --build-type=minimal (default single variant)
> 
>    --build-type=complete (as many variants as possible)

That seems like a good solution.

--Beman