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Re: autolink doesn't work when not specifyingtoolset version
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2007-05-08 09:20:37
on Tue May 08 2007, Vladimir Prus <ghost-AT-cs.msu.su>
wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 May 2007 03:49, Thomas Witt wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> If this is a showstopper
>
> I suppose that you, as release manager, get to to
decide of this "if".
> Calling "showstopper" something that does not
prevent getting working
> binaries is a bit liberal as far as I'm concerned.
>
>> we better figure out what we do about it. 
>
> Apparently, no concrete proposal was made.
>
>> My    
>> question is who is doing what and when?
>
> Assuming the concrete proposal is:
>
> 	Whenever no explicit version of msvc is provided,
> 	run compiler, extract version from the output, and
> 	use that.
>
> and I'm asked to implement that in code, it would
require
> access to all versions of msvc for which that
behaviour
> is desired, plus a couple of days.

I can easily give you access to everything but VC-7.0, and
with some
work, I can give you access to vc-7.0 too.

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