Re: [boost] Moving the includedirectoryto$BOOST_ROOT/include?(again)

Subject: Re: [boost] Moving the includedirectoryto$BOOST_ROOT/include?(again)
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-03 18:59:59

Tom Kent wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > I say "symlink" for brevity but on Windows in the common case it will 
> > probably be a junction.
>
> I don't think either works reliably on Windows. They will only work if 
> group policy permits it (and symlinks will never work on win7 if you are 
> an admin, ironically) and lots of programs don't deal with junctions 
> correctly.

"b2 headers" currently creates junctions when symlinks aren't available 
(which is basically always) and I haven't had problems with them so far.