Re: Intel compiler questions

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-12 07:49:09

Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Michael Stevens wrote:
>> On Tuesday 11 May 2004 22:38, Rene Rivera wrote:
>> > Michael Stevens wrote:
>> > > It is a little more complete. I call it "intellinux.jam" which I find
>> > > visually simpler when specifying properties. Does anyone have any
>> > > strong preferences for naming?
>> >
>> > "icc-linux", or "intel-linux" :-)
>>
>> I'm not sure if using '-' is not confusing!
>
> 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.
>
> As for icclinux vs. intellinux -- I think I'd prefer the first, but it's not 
> very important, IMO.

I realize that it's very different on different platforms, but I feel
strongly that the platform (linux/win32) should not be part of the
toolset name. We should have one "intel" toolset from a user's POV.
If it needs to be dispatched to two subsidiary files, that's fine.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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