on Thu May 17 2007, "John Maddock" <john-AT-johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote:
Douglas Gregor wrote:
Someone (John Maddock I think) suggested we use something like a ./configure script which actually configured BBv2 for you -- i.e. edited your site-config.jam and/or user-config.jam file setting the correct/detected/configured toolkits. Might be worth looking at, and might even be interactive (Python anyone? ;) ).
I wrote such a script, and it's there in $BOOST_ROOT. It only works on Unix-like systems, but it handles the simplest cases very well.
Exactly, the idea was to enhance the script to handle CXX/CXXFLAGS/LDFLAGS etc, so users could build with compilers not necessarily supported by Boost.Build yet.
There's no chance of that. BB is not prepared to run arbitrary compilers, and make just invokes bjam. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com Don't Miss BoostCon 2007! ==> http://www.boostcon.com