Re: Dynamic runtime required for Python static lib?

From: Russ Bryan (neurosion_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-09 14:23:53

--- In jamboost_at_[hidden], David Abrahams <dave_at_b...> wrote:
> "Russ Bryan" <neurosion_at_y...> writes:
> 
> > --- In jamboost_at_[hidden], David Abrahams <dave_at_b...> wrote:
> >> "neurosion" <neurosion_at_y...> writes:
> >> > Can anyone shed some light on why CodeWarrior's dynamic 
runtime 
> > is a 
> >> > requirement for the static lib?
> >> 
> >> I no longer remember, but you could find out by removing the line
> >> which reads:
> >> 
> >> <runtime-link>dynamic
> >> 
> >> from tools/build/v1/python.jam
> >> 
> >> and then running "bjam test" in libs/python/test. If no tests 
fail,
> >> I'll be happy to lift the requirement ;->
> >
> > Everything looks fine from my end. Four tests failed to compile, 
but 
> > it appears from their names and messages that they are supposed 
to 
> > fail, so I guess they succeeded. Regardless, these same tests 
failed 
> > to compile using the dynamic runtime.
> >
> > Naturally, other compiler results may vary.
> 
> Uhm, just to be sure: did you run the tests with
> -sBUILD=<runtime-link>static ??
> 
> Otherwise, it proves nothing ;-)

Yeah, so... I remembered to add <runtime-link>static, but it looks 
like I must have forgotten something else.

I hope everyone here occasionally makes really stupid mistakes.

Suffice it to say, the test doesn't work. Crashes all over the 
place. The requirement is righteous.

-- Russ