Re: [Boost-build] Is this the right way to add compiler flags to specific libraries

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Is this the right way to add compiler flags to specific libraries
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-27 13:33:42

[Reposting, with list in CC]

On Wednesday 27 May 2009 20:08:29 you wrote:
> GCC 4.4, which is what we are currently in the development version of
> openSUSE currently reports a number of false positive warnings regarding
> strict-aliasing.  Therefore I have to pass -Wno-strict-aliasing for those
> libraries where these erroneous warnings are put out.
> 
> Now I'm still not very familiar with the jam syntax and the current features
> of boost.build. As far as I've found out till now, something like
> 
> project boost/foo
>      : source-location ../src
>      : requirements <toolset-gcc:version>4.4:<cxxflags>-Wno-strict-aliasing
>      ;
> 
> should do the trick, right?

Yes, this should work. 

        <toolset>gcc-4.4:<cxxflags>-Wno-strict-aliasing

might work as well.

- Volodya