Re: [boost] Directory structure not quite right yet?

Subject: Re: [boost] Directory structure not quite right yet?
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-08 01:26:48

Beman Dawes wrote:

> I'm hoping that Boost.Build itself is the same for either distribution 
> directory structure, and that the only thing that differs 
> <boost-root>/Jamroot and perhaps some of the other <boost-root> scripts.

It would be nice if we could have a file that defines path constants (say)

    BOOST_INCLUDE
    BOOST_LIBS
    BOOST_STAGE

so that it was the only place that would need to be patched. All explicit 
path references throughout the Jamfiles need to be changed to refer to these 
though.

One could then have, for example,

BOOST_INCLUDE = $(BOOST_ROOT)/include
BOOST_LIBS = $(BOOST_ROOT)/modules
BOOST_STAGE = $(BOOST_ROOT)

If Boost.Build itself could then be moved from tools/build to modules/build, 
all will be well.