Re: [jamboost] Getting buid request from command line

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-28 07:42:43

I agree with your conclusions, FWIW.

-Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]>
To: <jamboost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 6:26 AM
Subject: [jamboost] Getting buid request from command line

>
> Hi,
> so, we've agreed to take build request from the command line in the
simplest
> possible form, for example
>
> bjam my_target release debug
>
> However, let's see what happens with more complex example. Internally, we
can
> have two build requests:
>
> gcc <runtime-link>static borland release
> gcc/<runtime-link>static borland release
>
> And they are not equvivalent. When mapping it to the command line use
current
> Dave's suggestion, we'll have
>
> gcc --runtime-link=static borland release
> ??????
>
> See the problem? We can't use "<" like in
>
> gcc/<runtime-link>static borland release
>
> because that's what we're trying to avoid. And using
>
> gcc/--runtime-link=static borland release
>
> is ugly. I propose using the following syntax
>
> gcc runtime-link=static borland release
> gcc/runtime-link=static borland release
>
> IOW, to drop "--" from features. This imposes the additional requirement
that
> target names cannot contain "=", but no other problems. I considered
using
> "-" instead of "=" but that's possibly confusing. To save time, I'm going
to
> implement the proposed modification. I'm not partial about the syntax ,
so
> can change it later.
>
> - Volodya
>
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