Re: [Boost-build] Regenerating msvc-setup.bat

From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-07-15 12:00:03

AMDG

On 7/15/19 5:07 AM, Edward Diener via Boost-build wrote:
> <snip>
> There is an end-user undocumented option for intel-win toolsets called
> <rewrite-setup-scripts>, which mimics the same end-user undocumented
> option for the msvc toolset. The effect of this is in code in intel-win:
> 

That's a problem with the docs.

> <snip>
>> A general fix would be to add all the subfeatures of
>> the current toolset instead of hard-coding the msvc
>> version on the line that I pointed out.
> 
> I am not sure how to do this but maybe you or someone else can take a
> crack at it.

Please create a github issue for this.

> <snip>
> 
>>
>>> Did anybody even realize that the current change to provide our own
>>> setup scripts, combined with the single msvc-setup.bat location for the
>>> intel-win toolset, destroys the ability for end-users to use more than a
>>> single Intel C++ for Window implementation/vc++ compatibility with Boost
>>> Build as it currently exists ?
>>
>> I certainly wasn't aware that intel-win uses a single
>> location until you brought this up.  I'm pretty sure that
>> I'm the one who broke this, when I moved the setup
>> scripts from %TEMP% to the build directory, so I doubt
>> anyone else noticed, either.
> 
> Wouldn't it still have used a single location under %TEMP% ?

The file names were mangled differently before that change.
The toolset version used to be mangled into a single file name,
without any subdirectories.

> The issue
> seems to be the code you pointed out where intel-win produces a single
> location somehow for msvc-setup.bat rather than the sort of multiple
> locations which having the toolset be msvc-someversion produces for each
> vc++ version.
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe