Re: Boost Build System

From: williamkempf_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-06-05 10:14:45

Some further questions...

The documentation talks about a subproject rule, while the system 
seems to use a SubDir rule with different syntax.  Can you fully 
explain how SubDir is used?

SubInclude seems to require that subprojects be in subdirectories of 
the main project.  This means that if I want to build thread_test as 
a subproject of the Boost.Threads library I have to move the 
directory which I *think* violates the latest Boost directory 
structure guidelines (we need to document this soon... it's hard to 
find e-mails on this in the archives).  Do you expect test programs 
and example programs to be top level projects?

How should jamfiles for examples and test programs link to the static 
libraries generated?  If they are subprojects a line such as
    <lib>../libraryname
works nicely and is what you used for Y in the example, but how would 
this work for top level projects?

Basically, I've got jamfiles that create the static threads.lib and 
the test_thread.exe for msvc, but I've had to re-arrange the 
directories and make test a subproject of src, which seems fragile 
for Boost distributions.  If you don't follow what I'm asking here I 
can upload the Boost.Threads library with the jamfiles.

Bill Kempf