[Boost-build] Flags for actions toolset.link and toolset.link.dll

From: Mark Evans (evans_mark_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-08 11:58:26

Someone correct me if this is a mistaken observation.

The stock toolsets/generators use "actions link" to build a program and "actions link.dll" to build a shared library (and "actions archive" to build a static archive).  The inheritance relationship between link and link.dll to me is unfortunate because there may be some flags that apply to building a program that you don't want to be inherited (by link.dll) when building a library.  It seems to me to make more sense to employ say "actions link.exe" for building EXE type - thus providing a hook to discriminate EXE flags from LIB flags - if that makes any sense.  BB2 gives me the freedom to do just this but I thought it was worth mentioning for the benefit of other toolset implementers that come along.

Does this make any sense to the experts?