Re: [Boost-build] [Getting started] Building withMingwin/Cygwinwithout cygwin?

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-30 13:37:29

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> tools/jam/src/build.jam only affects building bjam itself. You
> seem to have it already built, so at this point, what's written in
> that file does not matters.
>
> If you need to pass extra option to a compiler, you can do
> it in user-config.jam. Please see the "builtin tools" section
> in boost.build docs (http://boost.org/boost-build2)

I realise all that: I'm trying to sort out a users problem: somehow he came 
up with the --toolset=gcc-nocygwin option and everything built without any 
errors, it just didn't do what he thought it would :-(

Experimenting some more, I see that --toolset=gcc-foobar builds as well, 
looks like any suffix can be appended without any error from bjam - is this 
really the desired behaviour?

Thanks, John.