Re: [Boost-build] [build] Linking conditionally depending of a compiler version

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] [build] Linking conditionally depending of a compiler version
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-12 20:18:47

AMDG

On 05/12/2012 06:45 AM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
> <snip>
>     if ! <toolset>vacpp in $(properties)
>     {
>       result += <library>/boost/chrono//boost_chrono ;
>     }
> 
> Unfortunately/fortunately more recent versions of the compiler supports
> in an  acceptable way Boost.Chrono.
> 
> If I do always
> 
>       result += <library>/boost/chrono//boost_chrono ;
> 
> No test will work for vacpp 10.1, which is not desirable.
> 
> I would like to don't link with Boost.Chrono only for the failing
> version. Is there a way to achieve this with Boost.Build?
> How to know the version of the compiler is a Jamfile?
> 

Test for <toolset-vacpp:version>10.1 (or
whatever the version you need is).

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe