Rene Rivera wrote:
Jurko Gospodnetic' wrote:
Hi.
The topic of what gets built "out of the box" came up again, this time on IRC. Some background... In the past we have gone the route of building as much as possible when users do the manual Boost build+install. That approach has gotten us a rather distressing reputation of building being a real pain, mostly because it takes a long time to build. Ok, it does take about 10-15 minutes to build everything on our machines here (Windows XP). But I personally like the simple way of building 'everything'.
Hm...
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Anyway... I would really hate it if someone decided to change the name mangling for different build types or if it became difficult to tell boost build to 'build all variants as it did before by default'.
It depends on what you consider difficult. It would mean specifying something like:
bjam release debug link=static ... etc.
But perhaps we can make this much simpler. How about adding an option that selects how much is built with some easy to remember names? Something like:
--build-type=minimal (default single variant)
--build-type=complete (as many variants as possible)
That seems like a good solution. --Beman