Re: [Boost-build] threading=multi and msvc

From: Johan Nilsson (r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-13 04:44:03

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Monday 13 November 2006 12:30, Roland Schwarz wrote:
>> Johan Nilsson wrote:
>>> Isn't this more of a compiler-specific issue than O/S specific?
>> 
>> Yes, of course, I was a little sloppy.
>> 
>>> I'd prefer only platform B generating an error. If I explicitly
>>> request a shared runtime library I'd like to either get it, or fail.
>> 
>> Perhaps what irritates me is "error" and "fail", which might mean:
>> stop everything, which in case of building a larger set of
>> independent targets is too limiting.
>> 
>> What I would prefer instead is to put <build>no into the build
>> in this case. E.g when building the install target of boost this
>> would not stop everything but simply skip building this single
>> variant.
>> 
>> I don't know if this is possible however...
> 
> Rene and I talked that most build errors should become non-fatal --
> they 
> should cause dependents to be skipped, but other targets to be built.

Unless "-q" is specified, I hope?

/ Johan