Re: [boost] [context] asm_context_sources breaking regression testing for WinCE

Subject: Re: [boost] [context] asm_context_sources breaking regression testing for WinCE
From: David Deakins (ddeakins_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-03 08:50:45

On 12/3/2012 12:41 AM, Oliver Kowalke wrote:
> other unsupported platforms like Itanium gracefully fail - your build env
> is broken because you build WinCE for x86 but _M_X86 is not defined (but
> MSDN describes that it should - see link in my previous post).

Actually that regression test platform is for Windows Mobile 5 which is 
an ARMv4i build.  So I think it is correct that the _M_X86 flag is not 
defined.

It's not clear to me why you are reluctant to provide the fallback alias 
for situations like this where the existing set of aliases fail to match 
anything.  Do you have a specific concern about this method?  Also if 
you have any alternative way to make the build jamfile more robust in 
this situation, I am not picky about this approach.

Thanks,
-Dave