Re: [jamboost] Stupid msvc toolset?

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-12 11:19:11

John Maddock wrote:
> I'm sorry but I've been hit by this so many times I'm getting close to 
> ranting:

Sorry in advance if my questions are going to upset you even more...

> Why oh why does the msvc toolset inject the compilers own include paths into 
> the command line? 

It does? AFAICT it just runs vcvars32 before the compile and never 
inserts any compiler specific includes. Is there some specific instance 
that I can see what you are talking about?

> If I add a <sysinclude>/foo/bar to a project I expect it 
> to over-ride the compilers own search path. But Oh no the toolset knows 
> better and injects the compilers search path onto the command line *before* 
> the <sysinclude> path. Given that the compiler is set up correctly already
> by invoking the vcvars32.bat file this is just so completely unnecessary!

OK, I'm really confused now since I thought that's exactly what BBv1 is 
doing. For example here's what I see a compile command:

CALL "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 
2003\VC7\bin\VCVARS32.BAT" >nul
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\bin\cl" 
/Zm800 -nologo /EHsc -c /Z7 /Od /Ob0 /EHsc /GR /MDd /Op /wd4675 
/Zc:forScope /Zc:wchar_t 
-I"..\..\..\..\..\bin\boost\tools\build\v1\example\lib_use" 
-Fo"..\..\..\..\..\bin\boost\tools\build\v1\example\lib_use\libsimple.lib\vc-7_1\debug\threading-multi\simple_lib.obj" 
-Tp"simple_lib.cpp"

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