Re: [jamboost] Possible regressions?

From: Zbynek Winkler (zw-bjam_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-29 04:37:28

Vladimir Prus wrote:

>Hi Zbynek,
> 
>
>>Hello! I think that the following worked also for msvc:
>>
>> lib test : : <name>test ;
>> 
>>
>
>I could not confirm this. When I do:
>
> lib m : : <name>m ;
> exe a : a.cpp m ;
>
>The command include:
>
> echo "m.lib" >> "bin/msvc-7.1/debug/a.rsp"
>
>which looks right. 
>
This is really strange. I just updated to the latest cvs version and I 
still have this problem. Actually runing with -d2 gives me:

echo FOX-1.2 >> "bin\msvc-7.1\debug\threading-multi\main.rsp"

I experimented with it and the reason is that there is a dot in the 
name. When I remove it, the lib suffix is appended. So I guess this 
would be a bug?

>BTW, in CVS version, 
>
> lib m ;
>
>would also work.
>
> 
>
>>However, it seems that now I need to say <name>test.lib in order to link
>>to the library. So I tried to workaround this problem by
>>
>> lib test : : <name>test <toolset>gcc ;
>> lib test : : <name>test.lib <toolset>msvc ;
>>
>>which I think also used to work, but it does not now "because no
>>best-matching alternative could be found" :-(. Why is that?
>> 
>>
>
>I can't confirm this either. With those line, "bjam -n msvc gcc" works just 
>fine.
> 
>
Sorry, my example was not complete. The following exibits the error with 
latest cvs when calling bjam with no params. When building only target 
a, it works.

project
: requirements <threading>multi
;

lib test : : <name>test <toolset>gcc ;
lib test : : <name>test.lib <toolset>msvc ;
exe a : a.cpp test ;

Zbynek

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