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 16:24:23

on Mon Mar 19 2007, David Abrahams <dave-AT-boost-consulting.com> wrote:

> 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

Oh, also, I should note: I don't really think that says what you
want.  IIUC, you want 

  <toolset>gcc/<target-os>cygwin:<link>static

because the cygwin flavor of GCC can build mingw executables.  Whether
or not the above will work, of course, remains in question.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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