Re: [boost] [gil] Ok to merge new gil's extension to release branch?

Subject: Re: [boost] [gil] Ok to merge new gil's extension to release branch?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-04-04 15:31:50

AMDG

On 04/04/2013 11:22 AM, Jürgen Hunold wrote:
> 
> First, zlib.jam has one line "condition = [ $(condition).base ] ;" too much 
> (see zlib.diff).
> 

Ugh.  I really dislike property-set.base.  I've
fixed this correctly.

> Then ac.jam appends the contents of the test files again and again. See 
> ac_zlib.diff for a patch and zlib_with_requirements.log for "error C2084: 
> function 'int main(void)' already has a body".
> 

Fixed.

> and zlib.jam seems  to be called twice. I only have one setup for a prebuilt 
> library (zlib_setup.txt from user-config.jam) and I get two invocations, one 
> with my setup and one with some empty properties.

That's intentional.  The empty properties
come from Boost.IOStreams creating a default
setup.

> details in 
> "zlib_with_requirements.log".
> If I remove the requirement <toolset>msvc, I get 
> "zlib_without_requirements.log" which ends with
> 
> "
> notice: [zlib] Using pre-installed library
> notice: [zlib] Condition
> error: at E:\dev\devel\boost\libs\iostreams\build\Jamfile.v2:35
> error: zlib is already configured
> "
> 

The flag to prevent that mysteriously vanished
from the iostreams Jamfile.  Fixed now.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe