Didier Messages: 680 Registered: November 2008 Location: France
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Hi Honza,
I'm quite impressed, you went all this way just to enhance UPP build wow
But managing all the portability issues with the make facilities is a pretty tough shot !
I've been thinking for some while that boost-build is very well adapted to Upp package hierarchy and it works on WIN/LINUX/BSD/MAC/.... everywhere there is a decent C compiler.
boost-build is a build tool that has it's own syntax ( quite simple ) and that manages package dependencies (as in Upp) and it supports many compilers on many OS.
It is written in C ==> if you have a C compiler/linker and you can build it and then use it to build whatever you wan't ==> you don't depend on presence of make/gmake/imake/xxtools/...whatever.
On big gain is that the same "makefile" works on all platforms !! and that most common compilation options are available in generic form (optimisations, 32/64 bits, ...)
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