Re: [boost] version.hpp and 1.34

From: Roland Schwarz (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-31 12:30:13

Roland Schwarz wrote:
> I solve this by giving the bjam option --layout=system for HEAD installs 
> and --layout=versioned for the release branches.

Al tough I was using this , I just discovered that it only worked by 
accident.

What is missing, so this really will work, at least on windows with 
autolink, is something of a macro BOOST_LAYOUT which complements the 
Boost.Build --layout= command line option.

I would consider this even as a bug since on windows when building with 
--layout=system the autolink feature is not working at all. 
BOOST_AUTO_LINK_NOMANGLE is not of help here, since the --layout=system 
still applies lib prefix and threading and runtime suffixes.

In an ideal world, when doing bjam --layout=system install, the header 
file boost/config/autolink.hpp would be patched with the correct setting 
of the proposed BOOST_LAYOUT macro.

But then --layout=system might not be intended for win32. It should be 
disabled then for windows?

What do you think?

Roland