Re: Intel toolset for V2

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-30 06:31:01

Michael Stevens <Michael.Stevens_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Friday 28 May 2004 20:10, David Abrahams wrote:
>> Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> >> > The syntax is not correct, the right one is:
>> >> > : <toolset>intel,<toolset-intel:platform>linux:<cxxflags>TEST
>> That frightens me too. Is linux a subfeature of <toolset>intel?!
>> Shouldn't we have a <target-platform> feature at the top level?
^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
>>
> This seems like a much more agreeable syntax. I assume you meant
> <toolset-platform>intel-linux
> meaning that the feature 'toolset' must have the value 'intel' and the 
> subfeature 'linux' has the value 'linux'

No! AFAIK, that's what we havef today.

I meant

<target-platform>linux # building objects for linux
<toolset>intel # using an intel compiler
...

The target platform and the compiler are orthogonal; I see no reason
to bind them together. At some point you might want to do
cross-compilation... so it's not clear whether intel's different
options should be associated with the source-platform or the
target-platform, since they don't support cross-compilation (yet).

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Dave Abrahams
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