[Boost-testing] Re: CW-9.4 Windows?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-29 21:08:33

"Rene Rivera" <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:429913C5.6090305_at_redshift-software.com...
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> "Rene Rivera" <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
>> news:4297E1BE.6060309_at_redshift-software.com...
>>
>...
>> I haven't looked into why the versions of the compilers aren't being 
>> reported,
>
> For CW, you need to specify the toolset as "cw-9_4".

Done. Thanks.

>For gcc/cygwin you'll need to create a toolset named 
>"gcc-3_3_3-cygwin-tools.jam" that just "extend gcc ;", like the 
>cw-x-tool.jam files.

I was a bit nervous about doing that tonight, so just left it as "gcc" for 
now.

>> or why the platform is reported as "Microsoft Windows" instead of 
>> "Windows".
>
> This is because of the version of Python used. Python is not consistent 
> between versions on what it reports the platform to be.

OK. Doesn't hurt anything I guess.

>> Maybe I'll drop VC++ 7.1, since others are covering that well.
>
> Probably a good idea to drop it.

Done. I was close to running out of disk space, so one less compiler will 
help that too.

Thanks,

--Beman