[Boost-testing] Re: [serialization][metacomm] Boost.Serialization not building for vc-7_0

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-08 19:01:27

JOAQUIN LOPEZ MU?Z writes:
> Boost.Serialization has stopped building for vc-7_0
> in metacomm tests since about a cycle or so.
> I think the problem is that metacomm has begun using
> vc-7_0-tools.jam instead of vc7-tools.jam, according to
> the new toolset naming conventions, 

I'm pretty sure that's it.

> and
> libs/serialization/build/serialization.jam has some
> toolset-specific provisions for selecting Spirit 1.6
> which do not take the new names into account:
>
>     local requires-spirit = false ;
>     switch $(toolset) {
>     case "borland*" :
>         requires-spirit = true ;
>     case "msvc*" :
>         requires-spirit = true ;
>     case "iw*" :
>         requires-spirit = true ;
>     case "vc7" :
>         requires-spirit = true ;
>     case "vc7-stlport" :
>         requires-spirit = true ;
>     case "gcc-2*" :
>         requires-spirit = true ;
>     }
>
> AFAICS it only takes to add an additional case
> "vc-7_0*" to fix the problem. For completeness sake,
> another "vc-6_5*" won't hurt either.
> If nobody does it in ~8 hours I'll commit the changes
> myself tomorrow.

Please do, and thank you!

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering