Re: [jamboost] M9 preview available

From: Pedro Ferreira (pedro.ferreira_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-30 06:08:18

Hi Volodya,

> the preview distribution of Milestone 9 is available from
>
> http://zigzag.cs.msu.su:7813/M9

Congratulations!

> While it passes all the tests on all the toolsets I have, I would
appreciate
> if somebody give it a try and report any problems before the release is
> officially made.
>
> The reason is that number of changes is quite large, and some of them,
like
> change in the was libraries are handled, affect mainstream use.
>
> This last change means that
>
> lib a : a.cpp some_other_lib ;
>
> is now the preferred way to express library->library dependency.

I think there's still a problem with static libs that use searched libs. For
instance:

lib snmp : : <name>snmp ;
lib Libb : Libb.cpp snmp : <link>static ;

will include snmp.lib in Libb's rsp file.

I have shamelessly hacked response-file in builtin.jam in order not to
include libraries in static libs, but I'm sure there's a better way to it.
Pointers to how to fix this would be appreciated.

TIA,

Pedro