Re: [boost] [Bug][Tools] Incomplete tool documentation, especially for building

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-14 11:41:23

John Maddock wrote:
>>While answering a post about BCP on another list, I noticed that the
>>docs for BCP (at <http://www.boost.org/tools/bcp/bcp.html>) never
>>actually say where one would get BCP from!  Looking at my local
>>archive, I see the BCP source files are in the same directory as the
>>BCP doc file.  I noticed that they are C++ code; I suspected that BCP
>>could have been a (Python) script or (if I didn't respond to a
>>question asking why not) pre-made executables.  I feel that the BCP
>>docs should explain how to get BCP.
> 
> Good point.  I'll update the docs so folks know how to build it.
> 
> We could probably ship a zip containing the binaries for all the tools 
> rather than just bjam, but someone needs to step up and volunteer to build 
> them, failing that their not hard to build from source.

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=337287

But this just brings up the whole installer arguments ;-)

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