Re: [jamboost] Re: Conditional including library based on platform

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-02 04:35:50

On Friday 20 May 2005 12:22, Pedro Ferreira wrote:

> lib lwsock32 : : <name>wsock32 <os>NT ;
>
> (Not that this matters for the case).
>
> > that line generates an error on my linux machine:
> > "error: "NT" is not a known value of feature <os>"
>
> Right... The problem is that, on each platform, the <os> property has only
> one legal value.
> This reminds me of a recent discussion of this problem in the list.
> Volodya: do you have any plans for this?

No :-(
I'm tempted to remove all checking either for <toolset> and <os> features,
or just for all features. (In requirements).

Anybody who can handle this long overdue problem will be most welcome!

- Volodya

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