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Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Threading feature default
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-08-30 13:41:03


AMDG

On 08/30/2018 07:16 AM, Ian Emmons via Boost-build wrote:
> What is the default for the <threading> feature, "single" or "multi"?  I
> would actually like to know the answer to this in two contexts:
>
> 1. For Boost.Build in general (i.e., as a general build tool that I use
> for my own projects), and
>

The default is <threading>single, but some toolsets,
such as msvc, forcibly override this, when there is
no single threaded configuration.

> 2. In the build infrastructure of the Boost libraries themselves?
>

Boost explicitly sets the default to <threading>multi.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe


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