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Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] Variant Builds and missing libraries
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-13 12:31:06


Michael Jackson wrote:

>
> On Nov 12, 2008, at 11:39 AM, David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>
>> on Wed Nov 12 2008, Michael Jackson <mike.jackson-AT-bluequartz.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Came across an interesting situation while doing some testing on the
>>> CMake build system. I configured my build tree to be SHARED+MULTI-
>>> THREADED+DEBUG. When I built I was almost immediately getting an
>>> error
>>> about not being able to link against boost_test_exec_monitor-mt-
>>> shared. Which is wrong because test_exec_monitor is a static-only
>>> library. As I walked through the CMake code to track down what was
>>> the
>>> problem I basically discovered for myself that if you have
>>> BUILD_STATIC=OFF then NO static libraries will be built, which has
>>> the
>>> side effect of disabling any regression test that relies on the
>>> test_exec_monitor.
>>>
>>> Question: Is this desired behavior? (I wouldn't think so but I
>>> would rather hear that from a boost dev)
>>
>> Well, you'd need a Boost-CMake dev, of which there are few, to tell
>> you
>> what BUILD_STATIC=OFF is supposed to mean. However, my guess is that
>> it's really for deciding which library variants you're going to build
>> and install, not what can get built as part of a dependency chain.
>> Frankly, even in the build/install case, it seems implausible that
>> people could be unhappy when a static-only library is built statically
>> when the shared variant is requested. I would err on the side of
>> building rather than not building, and let people use --without-
>> libname
>> or whatever its CMake equivalent is if they want to leave it out.
>
> I chatted with Volodya on the #boost irc channel and basically if you
> are doing regression testing then all the variants are built.

Err, I did not say that. I said that Boost.Build does not need any up-front
build of anything -- if you want to run regressions with specific properties,
it will build all that's needed.

- Volodya


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