Re: [jamboost] adding support for fortran to boost.build [v2]

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-09 17:02:55

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Hi Toon,
> 
> sorry I did not reply yesterday, it's was a holiday in Russia,
> 

although OT but why exactly was it a holiday (just interested in culture).

> 
> That's "generator requirement" --- a set of properties which are needed to 
> even try running the generator. Since you have not defined the 'gfortran' 
> toolset (and I think we decided fortan toolset should be orthogonal from 
> ordinary C++ toolset), the generator is never run. V2 unhelpfully allows 
> sources which are not consumed in any way.
> 

What exactly do you mean by 'defining' a toolset. In my understanding 
the toolset foobar is defined from the moment there is a file foobar.jam 
in boost/tools/build/v2/tools.

> There are two questions:
> 
> 1. Why can't we issue a warning that .f file is not used? We used to issue 
> such warning but this ended up being a mess. The warning was issued on some 
> valid uses and implementation was complex.
> 

I understand

> 2. Why "generator requirements" are not documented? Hell knows -- I completely 
> forgot about them. I'll fix that asap.
> 

I can imagine it's not easy to document the whole thing. As I already 
said in previous mails: the doc is really getting up to speed which 
improved the boost.build experience really really much