Re: [jamboost] Re: msvc toolset

From: Thomas Witt (witt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-10 05:31:27

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David Abrahams wrote:
| "John Maddock" <john_at_[hidden]> writes:
|
| This is a holdover from stock Jam. I think the ability to
| incrementally update the components of a static library was viewed as
| a feature. Jam does the same thing on Unix, which generally supports
| that ability. I have no strong opinion on whether it's a good thing
| or not. If a file is deleted from the build it can result in
| too-large libraries which contain old objects, or even (I think) link
| errors due to duplicate definitions.
|

I also encountered (seemingly) random problems due to this. I removed
this feature in my boost copy ~4 month ago and everything works fine
since then. So I think it's not a good thing.

Thomas

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