Re: [Boost-build] bug? bultin properties not set

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] bug? bultin properties not set
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-02 08:22:04

Oliver Kowalke wrote:
> bjam --debug-building does notcontain the builtin properites such as 
> <architecture>, <address-model>, <instruction-set>. But <target-os> is 
> set. Because the User Handbook doesn't tell anything why some of the 
> bultin props are not set (props of the target os/platform) I assume it 
> is a bug.
> May this be correct?

Those three properties you mention, architecture, address-model, and 
instruction-set, are defined as optional. Hence they are not set by 
default. This fits the model of compilers to have a default for those 
that they compile to.

HTH

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