[boost] Re: building boost

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-06 08:48:00

Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> I'm using some of the recent features of boost, and so
> I updated regularly from cvs and recompile. However,
> as was noted before, a simple 'bjam' will take a *lot*
> of time, and consume a *lot* of disk space. Right now
> I'm seeing almost 900 MB in my boost tree and that
> doesn't even count all the space taken by boost
> once 'bjam install' has finished.
> 
> I'd really like to see an option to instruct boost.build
> only to produce one set of libraries, such as
> release-multithread-shared (falling back to static if
> shared isn't available).
> 
> I don't care how such an option would be spelled, and
> whether that would become the default build target or
> not. But the current situation is quite wastefull, IMO.

What's wrong with

   bjam -sBUILD="release <threading>multi"

(Boost.Build V1), or

  bjam --v2 release threading=multi link=shared

(Boost.Build V2).

Actually, the first command like will produce both shared and static
libraries, but the second one will produce only shared ones.

- Volodya