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

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-19 16:50:34

On Monday 19 March 2007 23:24, David Abrahams wrote:
> 
> 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.

The above should be:

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

to be syntactically correct. 

- Volodya