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From: Jonathan Biggar (jon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-19 19:39:52


Jurko Gospodnetić wrote:
> Hi Jonathan.
>
>> 3. I removed "<dependency>/boost//install-headers" from
>> boost-install, since running install in a subproject would fall over
>> not being able to find the "/boost" project. I tried a couple of ways
>> to try and get that project defined in the subproject (putting a
>> use-project inside the module part of the boost-install rule doesn't
>> do the trick). Removing the dependency means the boost headers don't
>> get installed or updated if you run install in a subproject.
>>
>> Maybe someone else has an idea how to fix #3 better?
>
> I am not very familiar with how the main Boost library Jamfile has
> been written so I'm not going to be the one applying any patches to it.
>
> However, maybe I can help with the Boost Build part of the problem if
> you can prepare a smaller test-case demonstrating the problem.
>
> I tried playing around with this to reproduce the problem but could
> not get anything to fail in any of my little test cases. Unfortunately
> there is no more time left for me to try and strip down the Boost
> library build to something more reasonable that I could then debug.

Ok, I'll come up with a small test case that shows the problem.

-- 
Jon Biggar
Floorboard Software
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