Re: [Boost-build] Very slow Visual Studio 2012 builds

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Very slow Visual Studio 2012 builds
From: Juraj Ivanèiæ (juraj.ivancic_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-03-19 10:33:00

On 19.3.2014. 14:57, kasty wrote:

> Any progress? This thread seems inactive. So far I tried all proposed patches
> on boost-build packaged in Boost 1.55. All of them do a good job with fast
> parallel compile. However they don't work when it comes to link the object
> files.

I created a pull request for boost-build on github [1], and it has been 
sitting there ever since. Perhaps you can try if that one works for you.

> Juraj Ivanèiæ latest patch seems to overwrite my link flags. For rules like
> this:
>
>      lib _mswsock : : <name>mswsock <search>/usr/local/lib : ;
>      alias mswsock : _mswsock : : : ;
>
>      exe main : main.cpp mswsock ;
>
> a "bjam -d+2" clearly shows that /usr/local/lib is not passed to the linker.

Not sure why this happens, just tried it and it works fine for me (with 
[1] applied).

[1] https://github.com/boostorg/build/pull/6