Re: [jamboost] Boost.Build V1, build subvariant fix!

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-03 19:52:00

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rene Rivera" <grafik666_at_[hidden]>

> The problem with subvariant checks and generation is fixed :-)

Wonderful (especially after the 1.55 tweak to boost-base.jam <0.02
wink>) !

> Specifying a multiple BUILD requests, both single valued and multi
valued
> correctly generates all the subvariants, without complaints about
> incompatabilities.
>
> As an example/proof/test of the workings of the fix I ended up adding
a new
> feature which has come up again and again... <architecture>. This is
mainly
> for test purpouses as I only enumerated the x86, Sparc, and Power
variants.
> And only implemented the flag changes in the gcc tool.
>
> For fun try specifying "-sBUILD=<architecture>i386/i486i586/i686/k6"
and watch
> it generate all those targets :-]

Did you by any chance try mixing orthogonal features? That was one of
the complaints:

-sBUILD="<architecture>i386/i486 <runtime-link>static/dynamic"

-Dave