Re: [Boost-users] [1.34] [showstopper] autolink doesn't work when not specifyingtoolset version

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-07 15:37:41

on Sun May 06 2007, "John Maddock" <john-AT-johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote:

> I don't think there's anything that autolinking can do to fix this:
> it requires that libraries are named consistently, and there's no
> way around that.

Yes, that's not what I meant to imply.  

> So we either need to update the docs, or preferably fix Boost.Build to 
> detect the MSVC version.  As Dave says it does this in other contexts 
> already, so it should be possible.

Exactly.

> BTW, this is a showstopper for 1.34 release I believe.

Absolutely.

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