Re: [Boost-build] Liking to pthreads

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-18 15:22:36

Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Monday 18 September 2006 18:06, David Abrahams wrote:
>> David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> > It is certainly sufficient for glibc and libstdc++, but not for
>> > portable building on the "abstract machine."  However, unless James
>> > M. has some strong arguments to the contrary, I'm willing to go with
>> > the optimization as we currently have it.
>>
>> Hm, well, good points in private email, James.
>>
>> Why don't we just make the optimization on platforms where it's known
>> to work?  Now that you've implemented it, Volodya,
>>
>>    -<threading>multi
>>
>> will work for those who want to disable threading explicitly.
>
> Where would you put it? That syntax can be only used to cancel parent's 
> requirements, not to cancel usage requirements from any target.

Why not that, too?

And what's a "parent?" do you mean a project higher up in the hierarchy?

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Dave Abrahams
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