Re: [Boost-build] [PING] State of PCH/msvc

From: Phillip Seaver (phil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-26 09:33:43

Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
> On 4/26/06, Philip Craig <philip_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>   
>> Just to add my datapoint again.
>>
>> boost build can't be used for serious projects in msvc++ until all of
>> pch and -jn (where n > 1) and pdb are working.
>>     
>
> What is the problem with -jn and pdb?
> I'm using here -j2 and never had any problem yet...
>   

Well, for a start, it doesn't generate .pdb's at the moment.  :-)  The
problem is that when compiling two files that use the same .pdb, one
locks the file and the other fails to compile when it tries to open the
locked .pdb for writing.

Phillip