Re: [Boost-build] Baffling build properties

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Baffling build properties
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-18 02:44:17

At Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:38:35 +0300,
Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, November 18, 2010 05:02:44 David Abrahams wrote:
> > The build I am running works just fine unless I add "address-model=64"
> > to the command line, at which point I get:
> > 
> >   error: link=shared together with runtime-link=static is not allowed
> >   error: such property combination is either impossible
> >   error: or too dangerious to be of any use
> > 
> > and BB bails out.  What the...?  I'm just building boost's "stage"
> > target.  How can I get around this problem, please!?
> 
> What is exact command line? 

bjam -j2 --user-config=W:\work\installer\user-config.jam 
     --build-dir=W:\work\installer\1_44-installer\build 
     --stagedir=W:\work\installer\1_44-installer\stage 
     --debug-configuration address-model=64 --build-type=complete
     toolset=msvc-10.0express stage

> And -- what Boost? 

1.44.0

> I'm sure I was fixing a problem where some library was working
> link=shared without also forcing runtime-link=static.

Yeah, that sounds familiar.  Any idea which one?

> You can use --debug-building to figure what library is being built when
> this error message is output.

Hmm... something looks fishy about the properties set up for
--build-type=complete in Jamroot.  Seems like <link> and
<runtime-link> are supposed to always have the same value, but Jamroot
isn't ensuring that.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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