Re: [Boost-build] msvc express toolset.

From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-22 18:46:31

AMDG

Jurko Gospodnetić wrote:
>   Hmmm, I never thought about this much but never found it to be wrong 
> that an incorrect tool configuration causes the build to fail.
>
>   For instance, why should not a tool configuration fail in case it is 
> called multiple times with conflicting configuration options? In that 
> case the configuration can never be correct under any circumstances.
> One such example would be configuring the same version of a compiler 
> toolset each time with a different executable.
>
>   As initializing a toolset is a site level configuration option, I do 
> not see how the rationale given for this rule on the cited web page 
> applies: 'Configuration may be shared between different machines, and 
> wrong values on one machine can be OK on another.'.
>
>   We do not initialize toolsets on different machines using the same 
> file. And even if we were to use such a 'shared' configuration file it 
> would be cleaner to add code to it that detects which machine it is on 
> and adjust the initialization accordingly.
>
>   I'd be most interested in hearing other people's opinions on this.

I compile using a windows bjam for both windows and cygwin.
My user-config.jam contains this:

using gcc : 3.4.4 : g++ ;
using gcc : 4.2.3 : g++-4.2.3 ;
using gcc : 4.3.0 : g++-4.3.0 ;

If I am not running from the cygwin shell, these are not in my PATH,
so initialization fails.  However, since the gcc toolset only issues a 
warning,
I can still build with msvc.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe