[Boost-build] question regarding building with bjam v2

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-17 12:38:22

I've checked out the latest version of Boost 1.34 - tagged 
Version_1_34_1_RC3

I've carefully read the Boost Build documentation (very much improved) and 
attempted to build the serialization library with the command line executed 
in the directory ../libs/serialization/build:

bjam --toolset=msvc-7.1

I get compilation errors - which I've never seen before.  The command line 
from file binary_iarchive.obj.rsp for compilation is:

"..\..\..\libs\serialization\src\binary_iarchive.cpp" -Fo"..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\serialization\build\msvc-7.1\debug\threading-multi\binary_iarchive.obj" 
 -TP /Z7 /Od /Ob0 /W3 /GR /MDd /Zc:forScope /Zc:wchar_t /GB /Op /wd4675 /EHs 
/Gy -c
-DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1
-DBOOST_SERIALIZATION_DYN_LINK=1
"-I..\..\.."

Which seems almost OK.  It looks like my compilation errors are related in 
someway to  the switch

-DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1

I've looked at the Jamfile.v2 for boost serialization build and it includes 
only -DBOOST_SERIALIZATION_DYN_LINK=1

Searching around, I find in the boost root directory Jamfile.v2 which 
contains the following:

# disable auto-linking for all targets here,
# primarily because it caused troubles with V2
<define>BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1

Which seems that it might be relevant to my case - it begs for a better 
explanation.

Soooooooo - what do I do now?  The following facts are also interesting:

a) the official boost test results are all passing for this combination of 
compiler and library.  They don't show any compilation errors.  The result 
matrix doesn't let me see the compilation command line for the build - I 
would be curious to see it.

b) I've made VC IDE project which compiles the code with no problem.  It 
doesn't pass the above switches though.

This kind of thing is very frustrating.

Robert Ramey