Re: [jamboost] Re: <toolset>: symmetic or not

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-16 09:21:58

David Abrahams wrote:
> Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
> 
>>David Abrahams wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>This is ok as long as the user has the option to enable bin/gcc/debug, 
>>>> as he might also need bin/acc/debug and /bin/vacpp/debug and so on. 
>>>>This should be possible for the platform as well, I think. Like 
>>>>bin/linux/gcc and bin/aix/gcc and bin/sunos/gcc and so on.
>>>
>>>
>>>Yeah, I agree with Markus. As soon as the user-config.jam or
>>>site-config.jam makes multiple toolsets available, it should
>>>definitely be symmetric.
>>
>>Eh... why? Why can you have "bin/debug" for default toolset and
>>"bin/borland/debug" for non-default one? 
> 
> 
> Did you mean "why can't" here? Otherwise, I don't know how to answer.
> 
> Well, you can. There are two kinds of people in this world <g>: those
> who build with one toolset and those that build with many. Those who
> build with many will be confused if they have one directory with no
> toolset named in it.

Ok, question closed.

- Volodya