Re: [Boost-build] Future development

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-16 17:44:00

on Tue Oct 16 2007, Larry Evans <cppljevans-AT-cox-internet.com> wrote:

> On 10/15/07 22:39, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> [snip]
>
>  > The use case you are talking about, is not that common.  Most users
>  > have one compiler they work with per system. I happen to work with
>  > many compilers on one system.  I create a binary directory for each
>  > of them, running ccmake or CMakeSetup to configure it for that
>  > compiler, and after that I run make, and cmake is re-run if it needs
>  > to and the software is built correctly.
>
> But this would require the user to understand the flags for all the
> compilers that are targeted.  Bjam saves the users this chore by
> providing a uniform name for all these flags. 

Doug's layer does that for any flags that aren't portable in practice
(i.e. I don't think he did anything for -D and -I).

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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