I've been quietly watching this discussion with some interest since I have invested time of my own in the past few years building portable build systems. I currently use a gmake-based build system - with careful crafting this can support "plug-in" compiler environments as well as support for "trivial" makefiles. Gmake is widely available on multiple platforms as well as being an off-the-shelf solution. Maybe I'm missing something but I'm curious as to why no-one has suggested this as an option Andrew -----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of John Maddock Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 4:59 AM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake David Abrahams wrote:
Exactly, the idea was to enhance the script to handle CXX/CXXFLAGS/LDFLAGS etc, so users could build with compilers not necessarily supported by Boost.Build yet.
There's no chance of that. BB is not prepared to run arbitrary compilers, and make just invokes bjam.
Sure, but with a "generic" toolset that used CXX/CXXFLAGS etc to run an arbitrary compiler, we surely could support that? John. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost