Re: New Boost.Build regression/failure

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-02-03 19:55:08

René Ferdinand Rivera Morell wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 1:34 PM Peter Dimov <pdimov_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > René Ferdinand Rivera Morell wrote:
...
> > > Could be. Although I find it weird that the boostcpp module has 
> > > recursive configuration checks. Because if it is.. It should really 
> > > not do that.
> >
> > No idea about that. It only fails with Cygwin GCC though.
>
> Interesting.. That's the one setup I don't test :-(

Even more interesting, it works with Cygwin Clang (toolset=clang). Only 
toolset=gcc fails.

C:\boost-git\develop\libs\config\test>b2 print_config_info toolset=clang
Performing configuration checks

    - default architecture     : x86
    - default address-model    : 64-bit
    - symlinks supported       : no  (cached) :
    - junctions supported      : yes (cached) :
    - hardlinks supported      : yes (cached) :
...found 185 targets...
...updating 7 targets...
clang-linux.compile.c++.without-pch 
..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\config\test\clang-linux-8.0.1\debug\threading-multi\visibility-hidden\config_info.obj
clang-linux.link 
..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\config\test\clang-linux-8.0.1\debug\threading-multi\visibility-hidden\config_info_printer.exe
clang-8: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-pthread' 
[-Wunused-command-line-argument]
Jamfile<C:\boost-git\develop\libs\config\test>.print-run 
<l./clang-linux-8.0.1/debug/threading-multi/visibility-hidden>print_config_info