Re: [jamboost] Milestone 9, second preview available

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-05 11:33:50

Hi Jürgen,

> On Wednesday 05 November 2003 09:10, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > Internally, the handling of response files was redone. Since this
> > was a large change, I'd appreciate if someone at windows try M9 on
> > his testcases. If I don't hear about any show-stopper bugs by
> > Thursday, I'll upload the packages.
>
> Positive news this time ;-))
> Works very well.

Good!

> Some minor glitches:
> Is it possibly to add a feature to be able to add /INCREMENTAL:NO option
> to the linker flags on Win32 ? I'm having problems due to incremental
> linking problems. (Libraries not updated etc.)

Just a typo, I'll fix this.

> It seems I cant put absolute paths to use-project statements.
> That means I write "E:\libraries\libx" in E:\develop\Jamfile (toplevel
> for all my projects, I get "cant resolve target "E:\Libraries\libx/lib/
> libx".
> If I use "../libraries/libx", all's well.
> It is difficult to provide a test case for this ;-) so I omit it.
> It should be easy to test.

I'll look into this.

> I'm compiling my biggest test case, but everything is looking good so
> far.
>
> Keep up the good work !

Thanks for feedback,
Volodya