Re: [Boost-build] Improving Boost Build?

From: Phillip Seaver (phil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-22 08:52:52

Jurko Gospodnetić wrote:

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>    When you build something using the msvc toolset all the parameters 
> passed to compilers/linkers get packaged into response files. When you 
> look at the shell commands bjam executes you just see the 
> compiler/linker call with the name of the response file passed as a 
> parameter. To see exactly which compiler/linker parameters were used you 
> need to open that response file but if a compiler/linker call fails then 
> its corresponding response file gets deleted together with any other 
> partially built targets. :-(
>
>    Best regards,
>      Jurko Gospodnetić
>   

You might want to look at the current msvc.jam.  It doesn't delete the
response files.  Also, -d2 dumps the response file in addition to
showing the command-line (I'm not sure what does that, though -- it may
be bjam).

Phillip