Re: [jamboost] Autolinking and Boost.Build

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-04 04:49:44

>I have a patch for this bug. It is already on the list, but I need to
>make a diff against last CVS and resubmit it again. I'll get to it as
>soon as we finish with MSVC patch by Aleksey Pakhunov.

OK good, I'll have to hold off trying to test auto-linking until then.

> 2) If I build with "<runtime-link>shared <threading>single" and msvc it 
> goes
> ahead and builds.... a multithreaded build: there is no single threaded
> option for:
>
> msvc with a dynamic runtime.
> msvc 8 and any kind of runtime.
>
> Rene managed to suppress this behaviour for bbv1, although it's not ideal 
> as
> building with "<runtime-link>shared <threading>single" just causes nothing
> to happen, and some kind of warning would be nice :-)

>There are also other potentially dangerous cases like building a DLL
>with a static runtime, linking two projects with different runtime-link
>together etc.

Agreed.

Thanks for the help, John.