Subject: Toolset Autoconfiguration [was: Martin Wille x86_64 V2 - python]
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.boost.testing
Date: 2007-03-26 13:48:13 GMT (2 years, 14 weeks, 2 days, 9 hours and 59 minutes ago)
on Mon Mar 26 2007, Roland Schwarz <roland.schwarz-AT-chello.at> wrote: > David Abrahams wrote: >> If I understand your complaint correctly, it's not a bug. > > No, it's a bug that has been confirmed by you. > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.build/15192 No, that's a different but related problem. Martin's complaint, IIUC, is that if you misspell a toolset version name on the command-line, you can end up autoconfiguring a different toolset than the one you intended to use, which is configured in your xxx-config.jam. > But this of course is not a python problem (I am just mentioning > this because we are in a python thread) Yes. And as nobody seems to be telling me in general how to parse toolset descriptions like xxx-vvv-sss-ttt, or what the intended semantics are, it probably won't be fixed, at least not by me. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com