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Subject: Re: [boost] Directory structure not quite right yet?
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-02 10:38:50


On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Daniela Engert <dani_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Am 02.01.2015 um 08:36 schrieb Asbjørn:
> > On 02.01.2015 06:35, Peter Dimov wrote:
> >> Would it not make sense to leave it all in c:\boost-1.57.0 and just
> >> build things there as needed? Am I really the only one who does that?
> >
> > FWIW, as a library user, that's what I've done all along.
> So do I.
>

FWIW.. *nix distributions, and I suspect most *nix users, don't do that.
They do a binary packages install from whatever the packager of the system
gives them. Which is almost certainly the result of a packager running "b2
install". And hence they never see the original & full Boost source tree.

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