Re: [Boost-build] Toolset autoconfiguration

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-12 09:01:50

On Sunday 12 November 2006 02:10, David Abrahams wrote:
> I just checked in changes to HEAD that make it possible for most
> people to build without ever editing a user-config.jam or
> site-config.jam.  Now you can specify the toolset on the command-line
> as follows:
>
>    bjam toolset=gcc-4.1
>
> or
>
>    bjam --toolset=gcc-4.1
>
> Also, if you don't specify or configure any toolset, it currently
> chooses msvc on Windows and gcc everywhere else, while issuing a
> warning.  That's a pretty crude heuristic; I welcome improvements.
>
> Please try this feature out.  If everyone is happy on Monday we can
> move it to the release branch.

With no toolsets configured, I get:

warning: * No toolsets are configured.
warning: * Configuring default toolset "gcc".
warning: * If the default is wrong, you may not be able to
warning:   build C++ programs.
warning: * Use the "--toolset=xxxxx" option to override our guess.
warning: * Please consult the documentation at
warning:   
http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/advanced/configuration.html
warning:   for more configuration options

I'm not sure what the "*" characters mean there.

When I try 

        bjam toolset=gcc

and

        bjam toolset=intel

it works without any problems. This is great!

Thanks,
Volodya