Re: [jamboost] Re: coupla bugs

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-22 01:56:58

Andre Hentz wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2003 Ali Azarbayejani wrote:
> > The complaint is that CYGWIN is not a value of feature "os" or
> > "msvc" is not a value of feature "toolset. Of course, these won't be
> > values when I am on Linux. Let me know if you can see a logical
> > problem...otherwise I'll do a use case later.
>
> I want to second that. I have some statements in my Jamfile that
> look like this:
>
> lib xerces : : <name>xerces-c_2 <toolset>msvc ;
> lib xerces : : <name>xerces-c <toolset>gcc ;
>
> Unfortunately, that requires 'using msvc' to be issued, which cannot be
> done on FreeBSD (msvc.jam fails to initialize since the compiler is not
> installed).

I want to third this ;-) I'm using the same physical drive for testing V2 on 
Linux and NT (drive is Samba-mounted to NT) and quite often I configure msvc 
from NT, and get errors from Linux.

However, I don't think the solution is to drop validation of values. Say you 
have

lib xerces : : <name>xerces-c_2 <toolset>mvsc ;

Without validation, you might spend a lot of time before noting that "mvsc" 
should be "msvc".... Would it be better if msvc can be dummy-initialized on 
FreeBSD --- so that "msvc" is declared as value of <toolset>, but no warning 
about missing cl is issued?

- Volodya