Thanks Vladimir,

From my limited perspective, it appears that a glob that recurses through a tree (that I would call FIND-GLOB) would best be implemented through a new builtin primitive. Would you agree? Semi-ironically, there already is a GLOB-RECURSIVELY built-in, but it doesn't recurse the tree as needed.

I tried building bjam (on CYGWIN) with --debug in preparation for work on this but unfortunately this causes bjam to fail an assertion:

assertion "self->size < self->capacity" failed: file "strings.c", line 20

Is this a known problem?

Cheers,
Mark

Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:

Hi Mark,
there's half-solution already:

install dist : dir1/file.hpp dir2/file2.hpp : . ;

will install all files while preserving directory structure. On the other
hand, there's no "fully recursive" glob. Patches welcome ;-), but if you
don't have the time right now, can you please file a bug report at
http://zigzag.cs.msu.su/boost.build

Thanks,
Volodya