Re: [Boost-users] problem with boost compilation

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Lars Viklund wrote:

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 08:06:30AM -0400, Nat Linden wrote:

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On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Martin Elzen wrote:

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There may be other errors, but what jumps out at me right now is that the "address-model=" part does NOT require two minus-signs in front of it...

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What would be the drawback to supporting all such switches in both syntaxes? (address-model= or --address-model=)

The set of options are rather fixed and domain-unspecific. The set of features isn't and are up to the particular things you're trying to build.

Users should take care in understanding the command line tool they use, and stop assuming that it behaves according to some particular GNU-like environment they are familiar with.

As is also frequently pointed out in this venue, Boost.Build != bjam. I acknowledge that bjam is intended to solve a broader variety of problems than building Boost. What I'm suggesting is that one must know a tremendous amount about the underlying tool (bjam) in order to successfully use the wrapper tool (Boost.Build). Boost.Build has a much more focused mandate. It does have a set of "particular things you're trying to build." It could, admittedly at the cost of some effort, do a better job wrapping some of the peculiarities of bjam. But I'll drop this because I'd forgotten that CMake is going to make all the above moot.