on Fri May 18 2007, "John Maddock" <john-AT-johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
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.
Sure, but with a "generic" toolset that used CXX/CXXFLAGS etc to run an arbitrary compiler, we surely could support that?
What are you proposing gets done with platform/compiler-independent build properties that are in existing Jamfiles? Do they just disappear, or do they get translated into one person's idea of a standard compiler flag? What does "support" mean in either case? What do we tell people when their builds don't work? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com