Re: [Boost-build] [bbv2] Build-dir for used projects

From: Phillip Seaver (phil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-29 11:10:43

Johan Nilsson wrote:
> Phillip Seaver wrote:
>   
>> As a side note, I also renamed project-root.jam -- IIRC, it was
>> interfering with using boost below my Jamroot.jam.
>>     
>
> You don't happen to remember in what way ... now?
>
> // Johan
>   

Well, I just changed the name back and my project failed to build.  I 
added a path constant in my Jamroot.jam that the boost jamfile.v2 
doesn't see, for whatever reason.  I was trying to build a separate 
project that uses boost, so it wasn't that I was in the boost directory 
and it didn't see my Jamroot.jam.

I hadn't thought of trying to modify ARGV to change the build 
directory.  Sneaky, but in a good way.  :->

To the developers:  would it make sense to have a "default-build-dir" 
that is used if the parent doesn't set it?  That way, people could build 
boost outside the source tree without having to remember to add 
"--build-dir" to their bjam calls (or use a script/alias/batch 
file/whatever).

Phillip