On May 22, 2017, at 12:29 PM, Rene Rivera via Boost-build <boost-build@lists.boost.org> wrote:

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Tal Lancaster via Boost-build <boost-build@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Hello,

I have been making changes to date_time which I cloned from GitHub.  Now I want to build and run the test files included in that repository.  How can I go about building and running these tests making use of the boost build mechanism?

In the boost docs, I noticed bjam and b2, which appear to work off of .jam files.  However, the date_time repository seems to be using Jamfile.v2 files, which I haven’t found any reference to.

I do have the boost_1_64_0 source distribute and run the bootstrap so I have bjam and b2.

You will need to clone Boost from git and substitute your date_time fork on that clone. Some info here <https://github.com/boostorg/boost/wiki/Getting-Started>, <https://github.com/boostorg/boost/wiki/Getting-Started#checking-out-a-particular-branch>. You'll have to figure out how to use git to look at your fork though. Don't know how to do that.


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Thanks for the reply.

I thought maybe there was a way to just have some minimal chunks of Boost and hack up a jam root file in date_time.

But I will go ahead and download the entire boost from GitHub and work from there.

Tal