Re: [jamboost] Re: [v2] not responding to toolset

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-16 08:03:02

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 23:01, Joao Abecasis wrote:

> > There are two alternatives:
> >
> > 1. You always build quickbook with the default toolset (which is the
> > first declared one)
>
> I used to sympathize with this option because it gave the toolset more
> control, like setting <variant>release by default. However, it seems
> that this approach doesn't live up to the user's expectations.
>
> > 2. You build quickbook with whatever toolset user has specified on the
> > command line. Note that if a user has not specified any toolset on the
> > command line, everything will be built with the default one (again, the
> > first declared).
>
> I was trying to avoid generating quickbook multiple times if multiple
> toolsets were provided on the command line... but now I see boostbook
> itself already generates lots of errors in this scenario, so I can just
> forget about it.

Do you mean that if quickbook worked for all compilers and for all settings, 
you would retain the current behaviour of quickbook.jam?

> ... patience ...
> ... deleting some lines from the quickbook toolset ...
>
> Done! More power to the user!

I still think that generally building a tool once with default toolset is 
good. However in the specific case of quickbook I just trust your judgement.

- Volodya