Re: [Boost-users] problem with boost compilation

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

Ohad Barta wrote:

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what is the corresponding cmd compilation command? I tried to specify all the corresponding flags but for some reason it doesn't work,(for example- despite using the flag --address-model=64, the folder "address-model-64" wasn't constructed in my folders hierarchy tree, so I guess that this flag was ignored)

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...

What would be the drawback to supporting all such switches in both syntaxes? (address-model= or --address-model=) I don't directly use Boost.Build myself, but this point seems needlessly confusing -- as evidenced by the steady flow of mailing-list questions from new users stumbling over this (trivial?) syntax issue.