David Abrahams wrote:
on Tue May 22 2007, "John Maddock" <john-AT-johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
Sure, but with a "generic" toolset that used CXX/CXXFLAGS etc to run an arbitrary compiler, we surely could support that?
Yes, we could.
I'm suggesting we do the same thing.
We have different constraints. We don't have low-level build descriptions as in Makefiles.
Sure, but having such a toolset would give others a place to start in developing their own toolset.
Existing supported toolsets remain unchanged. The 99% case where the user is using a version of gcc but with custom invoke/compiler options could be detected (autoconf does this already) and forwarded to our gcc toolset presumably.
I had meant to test this out by now, but you know time etc...
You're not answering my questions. What about the platform/compiler-independent build properties when they appear in Jamfiles? Are they ignored, or do they get translated somehow, or what?
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