Re: [Boost-build] migration and general questions

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-23 03:37:04

On Tuesday 23 October 2007 08:46:36 Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> 
> "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.

I would say that 'tee' + redirect is the right solution for this task. I don't
expect all programs that produces more that 1 page of output to have 
'save all output to file' option.

- Volodya