Re: [Boost-build] lib names (reprise)

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-20 05:02:04

David Abrahams wrote:

>> I believe the rationale for not versioning the intel toolset, is
>> that what matters is the msvc compiler targeted, not the intel
>> compiler version as far as binary compatibility is concerned, so
>> basically bbv1 chickened out of versioning the toolset names, and
>> the auto-link code followed.
>
> Except that libraries may have #ifdefs that change their ABIs based on
> which compiler/version is being used.  I think you need the toolset
> name in there.

By toolset name you mean the intel version number I presume, since the name 
"iw" is already in there.  But probably the ABI will change more based on 
_MSC_VER than it will based on INTEL_VERSION ?

If we can come up with a better scheme I'm all in favour, but it's not 
obvious to me what it should be or how we get Boost.Build and the auto-link 
code to always do the same thing when Boost.Build doesn't really know what 
the compiler version is (just what the toolset name is).

John.