[Wave] As I've pointed out already the Wave tests on the vc-8_0 platform (gonzalo: http://tinyurl.com/9jsmk) fail for reasons which are completely beyond my comprehension. Bjam tries to link the test executables against a wrong library which doesn't gets built (and which shouldn't get build). This error did not occur during earlier vc-8_0 test runs executed by others. Any ideas?
I believe I have an idea what's happening here, in the Jamfile you have: <runtime-link>static <threading>single as build requirements, but vc8 does not have a single threaded runtime at all, and I think it's this that's messing up the build system and the auto linking code, let me try and explain: 1) Setting <runtime-link>static <threading>single causes bjam to mangle the lib name with "-sgd" for the debug build, but it should actually be mangling the name with "-mt-sgd" because there is no single threaded option, so we're really building a multithread lib. 2) Setting <runtime-link>static <threading>single causes bjam to build with /MLd, but that option isn't actually recognised by VC8, so it reverts to the default which appears to be /MT - this is why the auto-link code is trying to link against the "-mt-s" build variant - bjam isn't actually building the variant it thinks it is. If we're serious about VC8 being a release requirement, then we really should fix the build system to handle it correctly, John.