Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
I think it would be nice if there was a way (maybe it exists now) to state in the test/build jamfile the minimum supported toolchains (say msvc >= 9.0, gcc >= 4.2) by that library / test.
There is! There are, three of them. One, you can use the Config build requirement feature: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_65_1/libs/config/doc/html/boost_config/build... as I've done here: https://github.com/boostorg/mp11/blob/develop/test/Jamfile#L12 You just have to pick the right set of requirements that include all of the compilers you care about, as sometimes the Config macro is set but you still want to go ahead with the test (f.ex. NO_CXX11_HDR_TYPE_TRAITS on gcc-4.7 in my case.) Two, you can use Predef in the exact same manner, to check any Predef macro: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_65_1/doc/html/predef/check_utilities.html Three, you can just use a built-in Boost.Build feature: project : requirements <toolset>msvc-7:<build>no <toolset>gcc-4.1:<build>no ; This doesn't allow you to compare versions with greater-than, it's just a match, but you could still enumerate whatever you want excluded, and is probably the easiest way to address the msvc-7.1 issue. You can also use all these for a specific test instead of globally, such as f.ex. here: https://github.com/boostorg/vmd/blob/develop/test/Jamfile.v2#L141