[Boost-build] Suprising behavior building quickbook on HEAD

From: Michael Marcin (mmarcin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-03 19:37:49

Hello,

I decided to play around with the latest version of quickbook using Windows 
XP.

I cd into "tools\quickbook" and run bjam.  It takes a while and spits out an 
executable.  After some investigation I realize it built both the debug and 
release variants with msvc-8.0 however the directory it built to was:
boost\bin.v2\tools\quickbook\msvc
I would have expected:
boost\bin.v2\tools\quickbook\msvc-8.0
I wasn't sure it had used the msvc-8.0 toolset or built release at the time 
so I used bjam variant=release toolset=msvc-8.0 to make sure.

Intestingly to me it did a large recompile but after also compiling with 
toolset=msvc-7.1 and comparing executables I determined that it had in fact 
originally used the msvc-8.0 toolset.

So why when defaulting to the msvc-8.0 toolset during the original build did 
it not use the msvc-8.0 directory name?

Thanks,

Michael Marcin