Michael Jackson wrote: > > On Nov 12, 2008, at 11:39 AM, David Abrahams wrote: > >> >> on Wed Nov 12 2008, Michael Jackson <mike.jackson-AT-bluequartz.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Came across an interesting situation while doing some testing on the >>> CMake build system. I configured my build tree to be SHARED+MULTI- >>> THREADED+DEBUG. When I built I was almost immediately getting an >>> error >>> about not being able to link against boost_test_exec_monitor-mt- >>> shared. Which is wrong because test_exec_monitor is a static-only >>> library. As I walked through the CMake code to track down what was >>> the >>> problem I basically discovered for myself that if you have >>> BUILD_STATIC=OFF then NO static libraries will be built, which has >>> the >>> side effect of disabling any regression test that relies on the >>> test_exec_monitor. >>> >>> Question: Is this desired behavior? (I wouldn't think so but I >>> would rather hear that from a boost dev) >> >> Well, you'd need a Boost-CMake dev, of which there are few, to tell >> you >> what BUILD_STATIC=OFF is supposed to mean. However, my guess is that >> it's really for deciding which library variants you're going to build >> and install, not what can get built as part of a dependency chain. >> Frankly, even in the build/install case, it seems implausible that >> people could be unhappy when a static-only library is built statically >> when the shared variant is requested. I would err on the side of >> building rather than not building, and let people use --without- >> libname >> or whatever its CMake equivalent is if they want to leave it out. > > I chatted with Volodya on the #boost irc channel and basically if you > are doing regression testing then all the variants are built.
Err, I did not say that. I said that Boost.Build does not need any up-front build of anything -- if you want to run regressions with specific properties, it will build all that's needed. - Volodya _______________________________________________ Boost-cmake mailing list Boost-cmake@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-cmake
