Robert Ramey wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
Now that I read your description of history, it seems to be just an artifact of your unwillingness to use Rene's fix.
Lets make simple, just fix bjam so that one can use the DEPENDS clause to condition the invocation of one test upon the successful completion of another test. Thats the way I would expect the DEPENDS clause to work from looking at the bjam documentation. I never suggested it before because I assumed that the problem would solve itself with bjam v2. But that's not here yet.
I could certainly add something, like DEPENDS, that makes it seem easy. As long as Doug approves me messing with the build system at this time.
While we're on the issue of Jamfiles, I did change my local Jamfile for comeau compilers to use static libraries and it seemed to get much better results. I could check in my change but I seem to recall that a change was going to be made in the como ... vc-7_1 toolset to address this. So far test results show this hasn't happened. So I'm confused as to whether to check in this change.
The changes where deeper than that. They involved changing the the functionality of BBv1 itself. The changes I posted for this worked only as far as user level building went. But they break testing building. Doug said to not pursue spending time on that avenue, so I didn't. Yes it is considerably easier to account for that particular issue on the project Jamfiles. So I'd say check in your changes. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - Grafik/jabber.org