Re: [Boost-build] [Boost][build][v2] Configuring for multiple toolsets

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-24 03:05:19

On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:23, Noel Belcourt wrote:

> We're trying to figure out how to deploy boost internally so we can
> easily support multiple development toolsets.  We want to configure
> some toolsets, like gcc, to use different Fortran compilers with
> different versions of the C++ compilers.  Here's a brief list of what
> we want to support on our Linux platforms.
>
> using gcc : 3.4.3 ;	# use g77
> using gcc : 4.0 ;	# use gfortran
>
> using pgi : 5.2 ;
> using pgi : 6.0 ;
>
> using intel : 8.0 ;
> using intel : 9.0 ;
>
> using pathscale : 2.3.1 ;
>
> How should we configure our boost/build to give our developers the
> flexibility to build with whatever toolset they choose on Linux?
> Should it be done through the site-config.jam and user-config.jam files
> and, if so, how?  

If you want all developers to have those versions configured, without manually 
adding user-config.jam to home directories, then site-config.jam is the right 
solution. It must be placed to the /etc directory of every development 
machine, and in that case will be automatically read by Boost.Build on 
startup.

> Note that we're thinking of having the boost 
> distribution on a networked file system so all users will use the same
> boost build (easier to maintain I hope).

In this case, you can probably add your customization to the 'site-config.jam' 
located inside Boost.Build distribution.

- Volodya

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Vladimir Prus
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