Re: [Boost-build] platform dependant source files

From: Roland Schwarz (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-26 07:16:44

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> You can also use the 'alias' rule to your advantage:
> 
>    lib thread : universal_source.cpp platform_sources ;
>    alias platform_sources : a.cpp : <os>NT ;
>    alias platform_sources : b.cpp : <os>LINUX ; 

This one looks promising. Thank you. But I have a couple of additional 
questions:

1) Where can I find which values for <os> do exist? Ideally I would 
expect the list to be of the same values that the  BOOST_PLATFORM from 
the config headers can take. I suspect that this mechanism would need to 
be embedded into the Boost.Jam core, true?

2) Does this work also for Boost.Build-v1? If not, how would I work 
around this then?

3) Is it still required that the boost lib must be buildable with v1? At 
least the standard setting of boost-build.jam in boost-root makes me 
believe so.

Thank you,
Roland