Re: Digital Mars failures/toolset configuration question

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-17 12:49:44

Aleksey Gurtovoy <alexy_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams writes:
>> Aleksey Gurtovoy <alexy_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>> David Abrahams writes:
>>>> Dang. I'll try HTML-ifying and Cc you so you can't miss it:
>>>>
>>>> bjam &quot;-sBUILD=&lt;dmc&gt;&lt;*&gt;&lt;runtime-link&gt;&lt;static&quot;
>>>
>>> Doesn't have any effect. "-sBUILD=&lt;runtime-link&gt;&lt;static"
>>> does, but naturally affects all the toolsets.
>>
>> Is your toolset really named "dmc"? 
>
> Nope! It's "dmc-8_43-stlport-4_5_3".
>
>> If not, you need the actual name of the toolset in the first angle
>> brackets.
>
> Oh, OK. I was assuming the above would match everything that starts
> with "dmc".
>
>>
>>>> It was meant to be more like:
>>>>
>>>> {
>>>> local v = BUILD ;
>>>> if ! $(BUILD)
>>>> {
>>>> v = DEFAULT_BUILD ;
>>>> }
>>>> if ! &lt;dmc&gt;&lt;*&gt;&lt;runtime-link&gt;static in $($(v))
>>>> {
>>>> $(v) += &lt;dmc&gt;&lt;*&gt;&lt;runtime-link&gt;static
>>>
>>> Did you miss a semi-colon? 
>>
>> Yep.
>>
>>> If I add one, the bjam eats it but stops
>>> building anything (just says "... found N targets..." and quits).
>>
>> O gawd, this is ridiculous. Well let me know if the toolset name is
>> in fact "dmc" and we'll go from there.
>
> FWIW, we just got the CD from Walter, which hopefully will allow us to
> test with the current default link configuration, but I'd still like
> to figure this out in particular because what we are trying to make to
> work at the moment is the "default" Digital Mars distribution.

So does the first option work if you put the full toolset name in the
angle brackets?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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