Re: [boost] [Boost-build] [1.35.0] Threads - build failure using gcc on Win XP

From: Roland Schwarz (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-14 17:21:38

Mat Marcus wrote:
> My goal is
> to restore the state of affairs to that of 1.34.1: the user didn't
> need to make any explicit mention of the threadapi or target-os on the
> command line or in the user-config.jam. 

I don't think this goal is reasonable.

You are doing essentially a cross compile, so you need to specify the
essential parts, which is <target-os> and <threadapi>.
Else the build system cannot support all variants.

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