Rene Rivera wrote:
Stefan Seefeld wrote:
I'v just built boost using
'bjam -sBUILD="release <threading>multi" --layout=system'
and I notice that all library names contain an 'mt' tag, which I thought would be suppressed with the --layout=system option. Unfortunately, I'm unable to find documentation for the --layout option, so I can't verify whether I remembered it wrongly.
You are remembering incorrectly, it only removes the version numbers and toolset names from the libraries. Anything else would cause conflicts with the different types of libraries that can be built.
Yes, I'm aware of this danger. But since my system (Fedora Core 5) contains boost libraries (release 1.33, I think) all without the 'mt' tag, and as I thought at least some would be compiled with multithread support, I concluded something was wrong. (Writing these lines I realize I'm still not sure I understand what 'multithread support' actually means in this context.) Thanks for the clarification !
Thus I have two questions:
* Where can I find complete documentation for options such as --layout ? (I'm not even sure this is part of bjam, or boost.build, or something entirely different.)
Hm, there's no "complete" documentation for that option. It's only part of the boost-root/Jamfile, so it's neither part of bjam of boost.build.
Ah, I see. But that shouldn't be a reason not to document it somewhere on boost.org, should it ? ;-) Thanks, Stefan