Re: [jamboost] Jamboost v2: toolset variable

From: Michael Stevens (Michael.Stevens_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-29 09:03:19

Hello Vincent,

BBv2 read your own user-config.jam from you home directory. How this works is 
in the documentation. Seach boost_build_v2.html for site_config.jam and 
user_config.jam.

I recall last month (or a couple of months back) the ALL_LOCATE_TARGET issue 
was mentioned in this mailing list. I think the current BBv2 status is that 
it doesn't support it directly. However this does not mean you cannot role 
you own.

You can use the 'build-dir' parameter of the 'project' rule to override the 
default build dir. If you need a global way to do this you could set an 
variable and use this instead of specifying a literal path as the argument.

Two good places to set such a variable are in your user-config.jam or in your 
boost-build.jam. The later is more powerful as it searched in the filesystem 
heirarchically and can therefore be easily customised

> I cannot find such a way in v2's docs for the dynamic definition of
> toolset and binaries destination. Also, when I use "bjam toolset=gcc" I
> get a " warning: no toolsets are configured" message.
I think this just mean you haven't yet defined any toolset. This should be 
done in the user or site config.

Michael