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

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-26 09:38:08

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 17:33, Phillip Seaver wrote:
> 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.

And what are possible solution, other then serializing compile actions?

- Volodya

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