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From: Mark Elston (m.elston_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-15 14:30:00


BTW,

Where is the documentation for how to specify the 'using ...' lines?
It came as a surprise that there were differences, or even multiple
parameters, or that they could be different for different compilers.

Oh, wait. I think I see it in the tools/xxx.jam in the rule init (...).
Is that it?

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Prus [mailto:ghost_at_[hidden]]On Behalf Of Vladimir
> Prus
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 12:27 AM
> To: jamboost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [jamboost] Re: More toolset thoughts
>
>
> David Abrahams wrote:
>
> > > Some other require to pass "installation root", e.g.
> > >
> > > using msvc : : P:\.....\vc98 ;
> >
> > That's just the equivalent of path for that compiler. I see that
> > toolset as needing resources (including the compiler executable) in
> > multiple subdirectories of that installation directory.
>
> Right, but that's still not the path to compiler itself. The
> problem is that
> it is non-intuitive which path should be used:
>
> P:\.....\vc98\bin
> P:\.....\vc98\
> P:\....Microsoft Visual Studio
>
> > > 1. Gcc is changed to match other compilers.
> >
> > Yes.
>
> Ok.
>
> > > 2. All toolset accept name of the compiler, and not some installation
> > > root. This would make it simple to explain how toolset is to be
> > > initialized.
> >
> > How will the directory for a nonstandard installation be
> specified, then?
>
> For vc, we'd strip the compiler name and "bin" directory from the
> compiler
> path passed to the init rule. After that, the initialization will
> proceed as
> now. This assumes that the last directory name is called "bin",
> but we assume
> that anyway.
>
> - Volodya
>
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