Re: [Boost-build] How best to combine "using xxx", toolset invocation, and conditions?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] How best to combine "using xxx", toolset invocation, and conditions?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-24 11:28:05

AMDG

On 12/24/2013 04:17 AM, Jess Peterson wrote:
> The situation is actually a little worse than I thought.  The first
> <flavor> added to a "using gcc" statement, whether done explicitly or by
> using a compiler that generates *mingw* with -dumpmachine,  is used in the
> output directory names of every compile.  If you try to add a flavor to
> each "using gcc" statement then b2 comes up with a compile line that has
> options but no compiler.
> 
> Removing the following lines from gcc.jam fixes all these problems for me,
> but I do not know why they are there nor do I know how to run tests.
> 

The test suite is in test/ (python test_all.py)

> #   switch $(machine:L)
> #     {
> #     case *mingw* : flavor ?= mingw ;
> #     }
> 
> 

I'll try to fix this after Christmas.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe