Re: [Boost-build] Eliminating widows host pollution?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Eliminating widows host pollution?
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir.prus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-03-16 01:39:49

Brian,

There is no mechanism to implicitly get properties. Could you point at some
places you are trying to fix - maybe those permit special treatment?

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016, 08:33 Kuhl, Brian <brian.kuhl_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> I'm trying to find a replacement for
>
> if [ os.name ] = NT
>
> using
>
> <target-os>windows
>
> but all the equivalents seem to use
>
> if <target-os>windows in $(properties)
>
> where 'properties' is passed in as parameter.
> Is there simpler syntax that doesn't require a property set ?
>
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boost-build [mailto:boost-build-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf
> Of Steven Watanabe
> Sent: March-15-16 1:04 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Eliminating widows host pollution?
>
> AMDG
>
> On 03/15/2016 01:51 PM, Kuhl, Brian wrote:
> > Many thanks for your quick reply.
> > Most the replacements are straight forward, but this one has me
> concerned.
> >
> > <os>NT,<toolset>gcc-cygwin:<define>_USE_W32_SOCKETS
> >
> > Is NT/gcc-cygwin a meaningful configuration separate from
> <target-os>cygwin or <os>CYGWIN ?
> >
>
> There is no such toolset as gcc-cygwin.  The
> only way to get this is if someone puts
>
> using gcc : cygwin ;
>
> in a Jamfile.
>
> The correct way to identify this is
> <toolset>gcc,<target-os>cygwin, or
> perhaps just <target-os>cygwin.
>
> > I have no way of verifying this, and I would like to push my changes
> upstream eventually.
> >
>
> In Christ,
> Steven Watanabe
>
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