Re: [Boost-build] stlport.jam forces _STLPORT_USE_DYN_LIB on?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-19 06:00:00

John Maddock wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I've had a couple of complaints now from people using Boost.Regex with
> STLport to the effect that they can't link against the regex lib's
> produced by bjam because these always reference the STLport dll's and not
> the static
> libraries.  Looking in stlport.jam I see:
> 
>         if [ $(rproperties).get <runtime-debugging> ] = "on"
>         {
>             usage-requirements +=
>                 <define>_STLP_USE_DYNAMIC_LIB=1 ;
>         }
> 
> So it looks like whenever a debug build is built the STLport dll version
> is
> linked against regardless of the users intent?  What was the rationale
> here?

I think this is covered in issue #1177 -- the above code is wrong,
and the issue has a fix. It's on my todo for this week to apply that patch.

- Volodya