Re: [Boost-build] migration and general questions

From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-23 00:46:36

"Rene Rivera" <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:471D7949.5000703_at_gmail.com...
>> 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 ?
>
> You don't need to be an expert ;-) The init rule is what gets called
> when you do "using intel-win ;" in your user-config.jam. And the
> arguments map directly to the ones you pass into the "using" (minus the
> toolset since it already has that). So you might add <compatibility>vc6
> to the fourth argument.

Ok. Thanks.

>>>>> Can we make bjam to automatically log all it's output into something
>>>>> like
>>>>> bjam.<toolset>.out?
>>
>> Sounds line nice to have feature.
>
> Why do you think it's a nice feature?

Because I am running build comands that may spawn 100 pages and for NT most 
command prompts wont store more than 1.  Also it's easier to deal with file 
that search through terminal screen. Also I can save result from different 
build run and compare.

Gennadiy