Re: [jamboost] Re: xx-config.jam

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-23 09:35:57

On Monday 23 May 2005 18:30, Rene Rivera wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
> > Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:
> >>On Monday 23 May 2005 16:05, David Abrahams wrote:
> >>
> >>I'd rather not have two files for a single toolset.
> >
> > Fine with me; I'm inclined the same way.
>
> And I'm inclined the other way :-) The reason I gave earlier was that
> having all that auto detection code in msvc.jam makes for a harder to
> read and maintain toolset file. For example the detection code in
> msvc.jam is half of the file, and it's not until about 2/3 down in the
> file when you get to see the flags, etc.

Well, we have move the detection code to the bottom of the file ;-)

> >>What if no registry keys are available and there are two 'cl.exe' in
> >> PATH? Then it's not possible to guess the versions of those cl.exe
> >
> > Corner case. The user uses explicit config for that one:
> >
> > using msvc : 7.1 : /some/path ;
>
> Or we eventually get to the point where can we run "cc --version" (or
> equivalent thereof) to ask the compiler directly.

Yea. Another question -- what if the user has just one compiler. Should he
see "-8.0" in build path or not? 

- Volodya

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Vladimir Prus
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