Re: [Boost-build] darwin.jam vs gcc.jam

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-13 22:48:07

Brad Howes <howes_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Dec 13, 2006, at 9:07 AM, Matthias Troyer wrote:
>
>     OK, but you also need the host OS since
>    
>     % ~/concepts/bin/gcc --version
>     gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 (Indiana University ConceptGCC alpha 4)
>     Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>     Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Trustees of Indiana University.
>     This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There  
>     is NO
>     warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR Â 
>     PURPOSE.
>    
>     does not tell you that it is MacOS X
>
> But that version does not work on Mac OS X, right? 

Yes it does.

> For all Apple-supplied GCC tools, I bet you
> will always find "Apple Computer" or even just 'darwin' in it:

It's not apple-supplied.

Fortunately (?), though, we don't really do cross-compilation, so
detecting the target OS is as trivial as detecting the host OS.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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