Re: [boost] Re: RFP: boost libraries

From: Steve M. Robbins (steven.robbins_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-04 11:26:16

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:35:34PM -0700, Noel Yap wrote:
> --- "Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> > In addition, it is very convenient if those three
> > variables are given
> > default values based on another variable,
> > traditionally named "prefix"
> > as follows:
> > 
> >     includedir = $prefix/include
> >     libdir = $prefix/lib
> >     htmldir = $prefix/share/doc
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it's actually
> prefixdir.

I've only ever seen "prefix", never "prefixdir".

> > At install time, $includedir/boost would become a
> > copy of 
> > boost-1.27.0/boost, the libboost* files would end up
> > in $libdir,
> > and the HTML hierarchy rooted at
> > boost-1.27.0/index.htm would
> > be copied to $htmldir/boost.  
> 
> I think only the *.hpp files should be installed. 

The libs must also be installed.  

You might think that docs are optional and split the install
into "install" and "install-docs" phases, however.

> Also, installation on Unix might want to change the
> suffixes (or at least make it configurable for all
> platforms).  Everything else sounds great.

Change the suffixes of what?

-S

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