Re: [Boost-build] Invoking compiler in user-config.jam even when toolset is different compiler

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Invoking compiler in user-config.jam even when toolset is different compiler
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-08-13 00:13:56

On 08/13/2014 06:40 AM, Edward Diener wrote:
> I have a line in my user-config.jam of:
>
> using clang : : C:/Programming/VersionControl/bninja_installed_clang/bin/clang++.exe ;
>
> in order to use clang as a toolset in Windows. Yet if I invoke bjam with:
>
> b2 toolset=gcc-4.8.1
>
> in some modular-boost directory. Boost Build still ends up testing the clang++.exe executable in my user-config.jam for some reason.
>
> Why is that and can this test of clang be eliminated in Boost Build since it is not clang I am invoking as my toolset ?

What is the output of --debug-configuration ?

- Volodya