Re: [jamboost] Re: Intel compiler questions

From: Michael Stevens (Michael.Stevens_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-12 02:57:50

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 09:18, Vladimir Prus wrote:

>
> I'm not sure, either. More specifically, I'm not sure we'll handle
> intel-linux-8.0 correctly. The dash would make sense of "linux" were just a
> subvariant of <toolset>intel, but since intel on linux and windows has
> different command line interface, I'm not sure having one toolset with two
> subvariants makes sense.
I think technically it works! It is possible to have icc-linux.jam (which 
derives from gcc) and icc-windows.jam (from msvc). It is all horribly 
confusing however.

>
> As for icclinux vs. intellinux -- I think I'd prefer the first, but it's
> not very important, IMO.
A good idea to choose a name so we don't have to change our user-config and 
Jamfiles!

'icclinux' seems to be the most popular.

Michael