Re: [Boost-users] [buid] disabling specific warnings

From: Yuval Ronen (ronen_yuval_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-18 10:04:50

Yuval Ronen wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
>> on Wed May 16 2007, Yuval Ronen <ronen_yuval-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> David Abrahams wrote:
>>>> on Wed May 16 2007, Yuval Ronen <ronen_yuval-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yuval Ronen wrote:
>>>>>> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>>>>>> Yuval Ronen wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can I pass a command line argument of some sort to tell Boost.Build V2
>>>>>>>> to disable some specific MSVC warnings?
>>>>>>>         bjam cxxflags=<whatever-MSVC-option-you-want>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> should work.
>>>>>> It doesn't. I tried
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    bjam --toolset=msvc-8.0 cxxflags=/wd4251
>>>>>>
>>>>>> but bjam spits errors about invalid arguments 
>>>> What are the *exact* error messages?
>>> The exact command line was
>>>
>>> bjam --toolset=msvc-8.0 --without-python cxxflags=/wd4251 stage
>> OK, try this:
>>
>>   bjam --toolset=msvc-8.0 --without-python cxxflags=-wd4251 stage
>>
>> I think it's a problem in BBv2 that "/" is given special meaning in
>> property values.
> 
> Yes, that works. Thanks a lot.
> Although I have to admit that I find it weird that cxxflags doesn't pass 
> its value as-is to the compiler...

Oops, I spoke too soon. It doesn't work. I guess I got confused last 
time, and missed the warning, but it's still there.