Re: cygwin/msvc passing tests

From: Andre Hentz (gclbb-jamboost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-10 13:00:02

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Vladimir Prus wrote:

> Hi Andre,
> If I understand the situation correctly, then the right solution should be to
> remove the 'if' statement:
>
> lib openssl : : <name>libeay32
> <search>$(tools-lib-dir) <toolset>msvc ;
>
> lib openssl : : <name>crypto
> <search>$(tools-lib-dir) <toolset>gcc ;
>
> lib gdi : : <name>gdi32 <toolset>msvc ;
> lib ws2 : : <name>ws2_32 <toolset>msvc ;
> lib boost_regex : : <name>boost_regex
> <search>$(tools-lib-dir) <toolset>gcc ;
>
> The only problem is that when building on gcc, build system will try to
> create gdi, notice that requirements can't be satisfied, and say
> "warning: skipped build of ./gdi ...." --- harmless, but ugly.
>
I tried that. Definitely ugly.

> This can be helped by declaring that "gdi" should be built only when
> explicitly requested. We don't have such a feature yet, but it's pretty
> simple and actually, is rather high priority already. See
> http://zigzag.cs.msu.su:7814/scarab/issues/id/BB29
>
> Does this approach look OK, or there are some issues I've missed?
>

Sounds like a good idea but I can't access that URL. I keep
getting 'connection refused'.

Best

Andre Hentz