Re: [boost] List of boost headers in boost/ (was RE: preprocess operation problems)

Subject: Re: [boost] List of boost headers in boost/ (was RE: preprocess operation problems)
From: Jürgen Hunold (jhunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-29 11:02:17

Hi Steven

Am Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2015, 14:27:06 schrieb Steven Watanabe:
> AMDG
> 
> On 01/28/2015 01:59 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:
> > Well.. This is certainly surprising. Given that when I look at my develop
> > checkout I see 1816 entries. All of which, except for some dirs, are
> > symlinks. I do expect *all* of them to be links though. So having some
> > dirs
> > in there seems wrong.
> 
> A few directories are used by multiple
> libraries  (e.g. numeric).  I don't think
> it's possible to make a symlink that points
> to more than one directory at once.  The
> Boost.Build code creates a directory and
> recursively attempts to link the contents
> in this case.

At least the hard link magic is broken on Windows. My last report is 

http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2014/07/215713.php

some half year ago. 

I don't see the platform used for this bugreport. Maybe creating forward 
headers (like Qt does) is the better way...

Yours,

Jürgen
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