RE: [Boost-testing] Re: [Wave] vc-8_0 woes

From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-25 13:12:35

David Abrahams wrote:

> > I don't see any change, and I don't understand this 
> "manifest" stuff either.
> 
> Me neither, but Microsoft assures me that it's neccessary to 
> do it when I build DLLs.  I have no idea why it should be 
> failing.  The command I was given by Microsoft supposedly 
> extracts the manifest from the DLL and then processes it somehow.
> 
> > it almost looks like the test framework is attempting to invoke 
> > the   ........manifest file directly
> 
> Hum, yeah it does.  Is this Boost.Build v1 or v2?
> Are you running the build under the NT command prompt or under cygwin?
> Can you show the command that triggers the error above?  It 
> should follow the error in your bjam output.

Perhaps that's all because I have a <threading>single line in the Jamfile,
which lets bjam (V1) call the VC8 compiler with the /MLd command line
switch, which isn't supported by VC8 anymore. Is there a way to have this
<threading>single for all but the vc8 compiler? 

Regards Hartmut