Re: [Boost-build] migration and general questions

From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-23 00:16:42

"Rene Rivera" <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
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> Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>> "Gennadiy Rozental" <rogeeff_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
>> news:feuj49$nb$1_at_ger.gmane.org...
>>> Couple more migration and general questions:
>>>
>>> What is correspondence to INTEL_BASE_MSVC_TOOLSET?
>
> Reading from intel-win.jam file...
>
> # Initializes the intel toolset for windows
> rule init ( version ? :     # the compiler version
>             command * :     # the command to invoke the compiler itself
>             options *       # Additional option: <compatibility>
>                             # either 'vc6', 'vc7', 'vc7.1'
>                             # or 'native'(default).
>           )

Umm. I am not am expert in BB. What should I add to either command line, 
Jamfile or user-config to specify the target msvc ?

>>> Can I add it ot the user-config?
>
> Hm, looking at one of my user-config.jam files
> <http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/RSI%20Droid.html>, you
> should be able to do:
>
> modules.poke : ARGV : [ modules.peek : ARGV ] --preserve-test-targets ;
>
>>> Can we make bjam to automatically log all it's output into something 
>>> like
>>> bjam.<toolset>.out?
>
> It's possible to change BB and bjam to do that but it's not a trivial
> change, as it would require adding some new builtins to bjam.

Sounds line nice to have feature. For now I am using wrapper script and 
tee-ing output.

Gennadiy