Re: [jamboost] Chages to msvc-stlport-tools.jam

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-08 07:10:46

David Abrahams wrote:

> I'm pretty sure there was a reason for that, probably with STLPort 4.0 in
> some configuration.

Yes, actually there was. And I know it because I wrote that file. :-)

The reason was me misunderstanding the purpose of the compiler command
line switch /U. I did think it would undefine the symbol regardless of
it beeing defined in some header file but this is not the case. And
therefore it's essentially useless.

Markus