Re: [Boost-build] -ftemplate-depth

From: Jurko Gospodnetić (jurko.gospodnetic_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-20 05:56:47

   Hi Ilya.

>>   Heh... low hanging fruit. :-) Seems like a real easy thing to add
> 
> Your patch and a new ticket (194) makes me think it is not so easy

   Heh... yup, when I wrote that I hadn't thought about the 'allowed 
values' problem, but it really did not turn out to be difficult to add. 
It just has this 'one little quirk' :-))) that will be removed as soon 
as we upgrade Boost Build too allow something like specifying a rule for 
validating a feature's value.

>> and it does make sense to allow the user to configure this.
> 
> User can use <cxxflags>

   Yup, that is the workaround used at the moment (I saw it used in 
several Boost library test Jamfiles). And all this started by Joel 
asking whether there was a way to not have two -ftemplate-depth-X 
parameters on the command line when you override the 'default' 
template-depth value for a project.

   User can still use <cxxflags>... this is just an attempt to prepare a 
cleaner interface for configuring the template-depth option.

   Best regards,
     Jurko Gospodnetić