[Boost-users] FW: Boost Build Variations: One Missing, One Extra!

From: Bilokon, Paul (paul.bilokon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-11 12:58:03

Forwarding this to Boost.Users (at the moderator's discretion), as this
is a Boost usage question, as well as a Boost.Build question.

Many thanks,
Paul

> ______________________________________________ 
> From: 	Bilokon, Paul  
> Sent:	Monday, August 11, 2008 4:41 PM
> To:	'boost-build_at_[hidden]'
> Subject:	Boost Build Variations: One Missing, One Extra!
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Apologies if the answer to this question is supposed to be obvious. I
> am trying to build Boost using the following command:
> 
>     "E:\dev\external\boost\boost_1_35_0\bjam\bjam.exe"
> --build-type=complete
> --build-dir="E:\dev\external\boost\boost_1_35_0\build"
> --toolset=msvc-8.0 stage
> 
> Now, as far as I understand, --build-type=complete should give me all
> combinations of
> 
>     variant=debug,release; threading=single,multi; link=static,shared
> 
> I'm expecting to see 2^3 = 8 combinations in total. As a result I get
> this (I do hope the original formatting gets preserved):
> 
> +--
> E:\dev\external\boost\boost_1_35_0\build\boost\bin.v2\libs\date_time\b
> uild\msvc-8.0
>     |
>     +-- debug
>     |   |
>     |   +-- link-static
>     |   |   |
>     |   |   +-- runtime-link-static:
> libboost_date_time-vc80-sgd-1_35.lib
>     |   |   |   |                     (variant=debug,
> threading=single, link=static)
>     |   |   |   |
>     |   |   |   +-- threading-multi:
> libboost_date_time-vc80-mt-sgd-1_35.lib
>     |   |   |                         (variant=debug, threading=multi,
> link=static)
>     |   |   |
>     |   |   +-- threading-multi:
> libboost_date_time-vc80-mt-gd-1_35.lib
>     |   |                             (variant=debug, threading=multi,
> link=static)
>     |   |
>     |   +-- threading-multi:
> boost_date_time-vc80-mt-gd-1_35.dll
>     |                                 (variant=debug, threading=multi,
> link=shared)
>     |
>     +-- release
>         |
>         +-- link-static
>         |   |
>         |   +-- runtime-link-static:
> libboost_date_time-vc80-s-1_35.lib
>         |   |   |                     (variant=release,
> threading=single, link=static)
>         |   |   |
>         |   |   +-- threading-multi:
> libboost_date_time-vc80-mt-s-1_35.lib
>         |   |                         (variant=release,
> threading=multi, link=static)
>         |   |
>         |   +-- threading-multi:
> libboost_date_time-vc80-mt-1_35.lib
>         |                             (variant=release,
> threading=multi, link=static)
>         |
>         +-- threading-multi:          boost_date_time-vc80-mt-1_35.dll
>                                       (variant=release,
> threading=multi, link=shared)
> 
> Indeed, I do get 8 combinations, *but* I get two of
> 
>     variant=debug, threading=multi, link=static
> 
> (under different names -- one with -s, the other one without) and I
> get two of
> 
>     variant=release, threading=multi, link=static
> 
> (under different names -- one with -s, the other one without) but I
> never get
> 
>     variant=debug, threading=single, link=shared
>     variant=release, threading=single, link=shared
> 
> Would you please explain to me what's going on?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Paul
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