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

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-25 13:16:42

Hartmut Kaiser <hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden]> writes:

>  
> 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.

No answers?

> 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? 

You can put the name of a rule in your requirements.  Make give the
rule an interface like the one below:

  # Normally on Linux, Python is built with GCC.  A "poor QOI choice" in
  # the implementation of the intel tools prevents the use of
  # intel-linked shared libs by a GCC-built executable unless they have
  # been told to use the GCC runtime.  This rule adds the requisite
  # flags to the compile and link lines.
  rule python-intel-use-gcc-stdlib ( toolset variant : non-defaults * )
  {
      if ( ! $(PYTHON_WINDOWS) )
        && ( ! <define>BOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB in $(non-defaults) )
            && [ MATCH (intel) : $(toolset) ]
      {
          return <stdlib>gcc ;
      }
      else
      {
          return ;
      }
  }

But really we should make sure that the msvc toolset doesn't do
anything with <threading>single when the version is >= 8.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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