Re: [boost] building shared boost libraries

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-03 17:29:47

At 05:16 PM 3/2/2002, David Abrahams wrote:

 >
 >----- Original Message -----
 >From: "Rene Rivera" <grafik666_at_[hidden]>
 >
 >> >How does this get updated?
 >>
 >> Manually? If there's another way that would be cool :-) How does the
 >one in
 >> "version.hpp" get updated?
 >
 >We could arrange a tiny executable which produces a version number from
 >the one in version.hpp and use it with backquotes in the command-line.
 >Alternatively (simpler), we could arrange for version.hpp to be
 >auto-generated based on a number in a .jam file. Not a high priority but
 >it would be good to avoid multiple copies of this number.

Yeah, there are three places now to keep the version number in sync; 
boost-root/index.htm, boost-root/boost/version.hpp, and 
boost-root/Jamrules.

Also, what happens when you use those rules to build an older version of 
Boost?

--Beman