Re: [Boost-build] [1.34] How force static library linking if that's all the toolset supports?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-19 16:15:44

on Tue Feb 20 2007, "John Maddock" <john-AT-johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote:

> Some of the regex 1.34 failures on cygwin are caused by cygwin dll builds 
> not being especially reliable :-(  The failures are cleared by marking the 
> regex lib as static only on that platform - given that the sporadic problems 
> occur inside the shared std lib, I think this is the only thing to do when 
> using std::locale extensively.
>
> I've added:
>
> <toolset>gcc-cygwin:<link>static
>
> To the regex build requirements, which fixes things locally, but apparently 
> not with the "gcc-cygwin-3.4.4" toolset used for regression testing.  Is 
> there any way to mark these up so all gcc-cygwin* toolsets behave the same?

I don't know if it will work, but you could try

  <toolset>gcc/<toolset-gcc:flavor>cygwin:<link>static

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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