[Boost-build] actions piecemeal archive not working?

From: K. Noel Belcourt (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-31 17:25:45

Hi,

I've got very long archive command lines (over a thousand objects to  
insert) which naturally blows out the shell command line buffer.  I  
was under the impression that making the archive action piecemeal  
would cause bjam to incrementally add the objects to the archive.  It  
seems like the piecemeal attribute works okay for gcc, but not other  
toolsets.  Do I need to make changes to Jambase to get this working  
for other toolsets like vacpp and mipspro?

Any ideas?

Thanks.

-- Noel

// my mipspro archive action

actions piecemeal archive
{
     ar -cr "$(<)" "$(>)"
}