Re: [Boost-build] [1.34] [showstopper] autolink doesn't work when not specifyingtoolset version

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-08 18:36:17

on Tue May 08 2007, Thomas Witt <witt-AT-acm.org> wrote:

> On May 7, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>
>>
>> Assuming the concrete proposal is:
>>
>> 	Whenever no explicit version of msvc is provided,
>> 	run compiler, extract version from the output, and
>> 	use that.
>>
>> and I'm asked to implement that in code, it would require
>> access to all versions of msvc for which that behaviour
>> is desired, plus a couple of days.
>
> I think it's too late in the game for extensive surgery. Dave can we
> get a quick doc fix for this, even if the docs aren't at fault?

Done and checked in.

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