on Thu Apr 16 2009, Vladimir Prus <vladimir-AT-codesourcery.com> wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
Unfortunately, your suggestion above is still to output something at the *end*.
Yeah, if possible. I hadn't seen your issue with that idea when I wrote this. Regardless, the text is an improvement even if it must go at the beginning.
The apparent problem is that if half of the libraries fail to build, and then we happily output explanation of what should be added to include and library paths,
Not necessarily. I didn't specify that one way or the other.
users might be very confused -- and might even miss "failed" messages. Ideally, we should make Boost.Jam record information about failed targets, and then say to user -- and the end of output -- which libraries failed to build -- but that's Boost.Jam change :-(
It doesn't have to be. I *think* you could add that functionality to Boost.Build without bjam changes.
So, I am not sure I can implement the above suggestion at this point. Or, am I making up non-existent problems?
Well, you can definitely change the words if not the placement. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com