Jonathan Wakely <cow@compsoc.man.ac.uk> wrote:
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:08:10PM +0200, Hendrik Schober wrote:
David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
Where did you get the idea you needed to pass "vc"? This is not a criticism; we need to know how you were led into this so we can figure out how to fix it.
I'm still unable to understand the sentence "Invoke the build system, specifying the toolset(s) you wish to use, to build and install." (step #5) in any other way. The examples below used "gcc", I figured I should replace this by "vc", which was to be found in the table right above this (step #3).
No it isn't! You _still_ haven't bothered to read that table!
1. Why should I? I'm the novice's advocate here. :) 2. I did read it.
It's really not hard. You're told to pick a toolset to use with the -sTOOLS option and the table says "TOOLS name" in the column heading.
That's why I (eventually) picked the entry under "TOOLS name" and used it together with the "-sTOOLS" option. <surprised> Was that wrong, too? Or did you misread my mail(s)?
It doesn't say "click a column in the table and then pick a variable from the table on the next page"
No, it doesn't. (However, it does say "For information about configuring each toolset, click its name in the leftmost column." And we're under the header "Configuring the tools" here.) Note: I'm not saying that what's written there is plain wrong or even written to mislead people. What I said is that I, by quick reading, read wrong. And obviously I wasn't the only one who failed to build the libs at first attempt. Now you can all go and say this isn't for the faint of heart who don't read carefully -- and you're going to lose many potential users who use other libraries without many problems. Or you can say you want this as easy as possible so that it will get widely used. Then you should make it easier. (You won't lose me either way. I am using some of boost for quite a while and I am sure I would find a way to build the libs that require it if I spent enough time.)
jon
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