Re: [Boost-users] How do I "run the configure tests"?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] How do I "run the configure tests"?
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-04-10 04:23:07

On 4/9/18 6:03 PM, Chris Stankevitz via Boost-users wrote:
> If anyone knows how to "run the configure tests" please let me know.
> I suspect/hope that they will show me what compiler and toolset
> options are available.

Here's what I do:

a) set current directory to boost/libs/config/test
b) invoke b2 --dumptests >b2.log
c) cat b2.log

This will show you all the config variable settings for the selected 
compiler.  But it won't show you the compilers if found.

I hope this helps, though I doubt it will.

Robert Ramey