Rene Rivera wrote:
By the way it's only 16 variants that get built. The rest are the result of not having the version tag so those are just either copies or symlinks.
That's still pretty intimidating, and requires a lot of memory / disk / time to build. I totally agree that a single configuration should be picked by default. I don't know the technical details well enough, but couldn't the default be set by individual library maintainers ? Or redefined, if the boost-wide default configuration is inappropriate for a given library ? Also, I believe the build parameters used to build only a subset of the configurations, and the one used to build the 'system' layout deserve a much more prominent exposure in the docs. Each time I want to rebuild boost, I have to google around to remind myself of the options I want... And we are not even talking about bb1 vs. bb2 yet... Regards, Stefan