From stdcxx-dev-return-5729-apmail-incubator-stdcxx-dev-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Mon Oct 22 18:09:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-stdcxx-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 84773 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2007 18:09:02 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 22 Oct 2007 18:09:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 41411 invoked by uid 500); 22 Oct 2007 18:08:50 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-stdcxx-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 41392 invoked by uid 500); 22 Oct 2007 18:08:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact stdcxx-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: stdcxx-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list stdcxx-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 41381 invoked by uid 99); 22 Oct 2007 18:08:49 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:08:49 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of sebor@roguewave.com designates 208.30.140.160 as permitted sender) Received: from [208.30.140.160] (HELO moroha.quovadx.com) (208.30.140.160) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:08:53 +0000 Received: from qxvcexch01.ad.quovadx.com (qxvcexch01.ad.quovadx.com [192.168.170.59]) by moroha.quovadx.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9MI8IBA006854 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:08:19 GMT Received: from [10.70.3.143] ([10.70.3.143]) by qxvcexch01.ad.quovadx.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:07:53 -0600 Message-ID: <471CE720.80502@roguewave.com> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:08:32 -0600 From: Martin Sebor User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stdcxx-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Build tag really optional? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Oct 2007 18:07:53.0047 (UTC) FILETIME=[76E70E70:01C814D6] X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Eric Lemings wrote: > > On line 570, the README file in RC6 says the following: > > " The argument is optional. When not > specified a build type of 11s is assumed." > > I tried that but it doesn't appear to build anything. What does it do? (It would help to see the command you gave and the output.) FWIW, I was pleasantly surprised just the other day when I typed configure with no command line arguments and the script figured out that I had MSVC 8 installed as my default compiler and set up a buildspace for it (I think under ./build). Martin > > Also, the Makefiles on Unix-like platorms supported a BUILDMODE notation > (e.g. BUILDMODE=debug,pthreads,shared) in addition to the coded build > tags (e.g. 11s, 15d, etc.). Do the Windows build scripts also support a > build mode notation or something similar? > > Brad. > >