I am using boost-build to build my project, but I have added a static library as a dependency that is built using GNU make. If I build this library manually, I can link it to my project in boost build using this simple Jamfile:

lib hts
  : 
  : <link>static <file>lib/lib.a
  :
  : <include>lib_headers 
;

Is there a way to tell boost-build to run make on the directory if the lib/lib.a is not present there?


Thank you,

Mauricio Carneiro, Ph.D.
http://www.broadinstitute.org/~carneiro/