Re: [Boost-testing] error: "8.3/runtime" is not a known subfeature value of <toolset>cw

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-15 12:56:03

Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:

> Vladimir Prus writes:
>> Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
>> 
>> > Vladimir Prus writes:
>> >> I'm pretty sure this is yet another fallout from "--toolset" option
>> >> and multiple toolsets.
>> >> 
>> >> May I suggest that the "--toolset" change be reverted, and the
>> >> command line be:
>> >> 
>> >>    borland-5.6.4 borland-5.8.2 msvc-6.5 msvc-7.0
>> >>    cw-8.3/runtime-link=static
>> > 
>> > Don't we want this working before we release?
>> 
>> Why would we? "toolset=" autoconfiguration is a way to help first time
>> users.
> 
> It's also the way the bjam invocation is documented in the new Getting
> Started guide and Boost.Build v2 documentation
> (http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/advanced/invocation.html).

The getting started guide does not say you can pass several toolsets,
and Boost.Build docs say that a toolset must be configured before being 
requested.

>> I think saying that if one wants to use more that one toolset he has
>> to configure them is acceptable.
> 
> Judging from the diagnostics and the fact that other runners don't
> have this problem, I don't think that multiple toolsets have anything
> to do with it. It's the "cw-8.3/runtime-link=static" piece that is
> causing grief here.

I think it's the combination of --toolset and auto-configuration code.
The problem you posted before was that nothing's build. Now,
you get error while parsing the command line.

>> >> If I understand correctly, change to use "toolset=" or "--toolset"
>> >> is not a pressing at all -- the only difference is that "toolset="
>> >> and "--toolset" performs toolset auto-configuration and:
>> >> 
>> >>         1. Most testers have perfectly working user-config.jam
>> > 
>> > Sort of, I'd say. We (metacomm) still have an outstanding CW issue
>> > which we are not sure what to attribute to (toolset config, toolset
>> > command line specification, something else?):
>> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.testing/3515/focus=3698
>> 
>> I'm aware of this issue; I plan to look at it this weekend.
> 
> Thank you. What I was trying to say, though, that at the moment the
> "cw-8.3/runtime-link=static" toolset specification doesn't work,
> '--toolset=' option present or not.
> 
>  
>> >>         2. Using autoconfiguration for regression tests might be a
>> >>         bad idea in general.
>> > 
>> > Why?
>> 
>> Because instead of having a single file that's says that versions
>> you have configured and how,
> 
> Sorry, I don't see why I should be required to write a file that says
> 
>     using msvc : 7.1 ;
> 
> instead of simply being able to request the same in the command line.

I would even suggest that user-config.jam use full paths to compilers.

- Volodya