Solution: specifying options containing '/'

From: DJB (usrlocalinfo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-12 17:12:33

My apologies, this was already answered by Dave earlier:

Well, IMO it's a terrible limitation of the build system, that we
ought to fix.

That said, you can pass any /xxx option to vc7.1 as -xxx:

bjam --v2 -d4 threading=multi \
link-runtime=static \
msvc-7.1 release \
cxxflags=-GS \
someProject

HTH,
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com