Re: [boost] [1.58.0] Release candidates available

1 May 2015

      Am 30.04.2015 um 18:46 schrieb Olaf van der Spek:
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Deniz Bahadir  wrote:
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Am 30.04.2015 um 13:57 schrieb Olaf van der Spek:
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On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Olaf van der Spek  wrote:
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On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Beman Dawes  wrote:
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No. I'm rerunning now with --build-type=complete
Failed, with the same errors you reported.
That's a cautionary tale!
Marshall,
We need to start asking RC testers to use --build-type=complete
Why doesn't it default to complete (on Windows)?
Where's build-type documented anyway?
All I found was " For instructions on how to build only specific
variants, please ask on the Boost.Build mailing list."
Somebody?
You can call "b2 --help" (or "bjam --help") in the Boost-source directory
and will get the information you are looking for:
--build-type=<type>
   Build the specified pre-defined set of variations of
   the libraries. Note, that which variants get built
   depends on what each library supports.
      -- minimal -- (default) Builds a minimal set of
      variants. On Windows, these are static
      multithreaded libraries in debug and release
      modes, using shared runtime. On Linux, these are
      static and shared multithreaded libraries in
      release mode.
      -- complete -- Build all possible variations.
Ah, thanks. Could the -s variant (static mt lib release with static
runtime) be build too? I think it's a relatively frequently used
variant.
As far as I know this should be possible, if you do not use the 
build-option "--build-type" but instead the build-properties "variant", 
"link", "threading" and "runtime-link". (See "b2 --help".)

For the combination you asked for the build-properties on the 
command-line would look like:

variant=release link=static runtime-link=static threading=multi
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I still think the documentation should be improved such that it
doesn't have to redirect to a mailing list for further info.
I agree with you. Someone, who feels in charge for boost-build should 
probably consider doing this.

Deniz

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