Re: v2-m9.1. no best matching alternative error, not detecting msvc versions (again?)

From: Altec (altecrtcw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-18 13:08:49

Michael Stevens wrote:

> Hello Altec,
> 
> 
>>lib someLib
>>
>> : <name>someLibd <search>$(VC6LIBS)
>>
>> <toolset>msvc <toolset-msvc:version>6
>> <variant>debug ;
>> ;
>>
>>lib someLib
>>
>> : <name>someLibd <search>$(VC7LIBS)
>>
>> <toolset>msvc <toolset-msvc:version>7.1
>> <variant>debug ;
>> ;
>>
> 
> 
> I think this structure should work in principle. It certainly does in a 
> equivalent with gcc I use. However the addition ';' in the line
> <variant>debug ;
> may be sufficiently confusing bjam.
> 
> Even more confusing if I cut and paste the text from you original mail it 
> drives jam crazy. I traces this to non printing characters in the blank 
> spaces with hex code C2 and A0. Of course this could just be my mail client!
> 
> Michael
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Great catch! I didn't even notice the extra ';' so that may have been 
it--the funky character was probably caused by my pc, gonna have to 
reinstall stuff since the problem with non-printing characters caused 
other problems for me last week. I was convinced I wasn't getting the 
<toolset> syntax correct so I ended up parsing ARGV.