On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:56:46 -0500, Rene Rivera wrote
The topic of what gets built "out of the box" came up again, this time on IRC. Some background... In the past we have gone the route of building as much as possible when users do the manual Boost build+install. That approach has gotten us a rather distressing reputation of building being a real pain, mostly because it takes a long time to build. But also because it generates a dizzying array of library files and hence people have a hard time understanding what to link to.
The old real way to "solve" this is to reduce the number of variants we build by default. So the current favorite is to only build:
* multi-threaded, shared runtime, release
This seems to be the most used and most immediately useful variant in the majority of platforms. It also happens to be, other than release vs. debug, the only possible variant in some platforms.
So if no one has objections to this choice I, with help from Volodya, will change this by the end of the week.
I'm in support of this change. Jeff