Re: [Boost-build] Boost 1.55 build failure on Ubuntu

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Boost 1.55 build failure on Ubuntu
From: Arindam Mukherjee (arindam.mukerjee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-03-21 09:55:16

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Jurko Gospodnetić
<jurko.gospodnetic_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>   Hi.
>
>
> On 21.3.2014. 5:16, Arindam Mukherjee wrote:
>>
>> Thank you. Worked without any problems. However, on Windows this
>> worked without --layout=tagged|versioned option. Does it have to do
>> with any differences in file naming conventions?
>
>
>   Yup. A different default --layout value is used on Windows.
>
>   When running 'b2 --help' on the Boost library project you get the
> following info:
>
>>     The default value is 'versioned' on Windows, and
>>     'system' on Unix.

So I am guessing 'system' is the undecorated format of file names
while 'versioned' and 'tagged' are both decorated formats. Is the
absence of the toolchain version string in 'tagged' its only point of
difference from 'versioned'?

>
>
>   Hope this helps.
>

Yes it did! Thanks.

Best regards.