Re: Digital Mars failures/toolset configuration question

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (alexy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-16 06:21:36

David Abrahams writes:
> Aleksey Gurtovoy <alexy_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> Actually it's C runtime that is missing from the online distribution,
>> so STLPort runs are affected as well. How about we switch the tests to
>> static linking when the toolset name ends with "-static"? That would
>> be more general and allow us to switch back to dynamic linking (or run
>> two set of tests in parallel) when we get the CD generously offered by
>> Walter.
>
> Actually this can be done from the command-line.
>
> ought to do the trick.

The Yahoo stripped the essentials again! But won't anything we specify
in the command line apply to all the toolsets we are running in the
batch?

>
> Another possibility, thought slightly kludgey, would be to put
>
> {
> local v = BUILD ;
> if ! $(BUILD)
> {
> v = DEFAULT_BUILD ;
> }
> }
>
> in the toolset file. Could you try out one or both of these options?

Unfortunately, no joy. It still tries to compile for/link with dynamic
runtime. (Not that I understand how the above was supposed to change
that).

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering