Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-16 17:30:34

On May 16, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Dean Michael Berris wrote:

> On 5/16/07, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> on Sun May 13 2007, "Dean Michael Berris" <dmberris-AT- 
>> friendster.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I guess the thought of using something not-Boost maintained is  
>>> brought
>>> about by the obvious hardships in maintaining .jam files in
>>> Boost.Build itself, and extending the tool chain as well as the mere
>>> maintenance of the code to fight fires and squash bugs that seem  
>>> to be
>>> never ending.
>>
>> Yup.  Even with the new Getting Started Guide, just take a look at  
>> the
>> number of complaints we've had on the user's list about being unable
>> to build Boost 1.34.  So far these are largely issues having to do
>> with configuring the tools.
>>
>
> Someone (John Maddock I think) suggested we use something like a
> ./configure script which actually configured BBv2 for you -- i.e.
> edited your site-config.jam and/or user-config.jam file setting the
> correct/detected/configured toolkits. Might be worth looking at, and
> might even be interactive (Python anyone? ;) ).

I wrote such a script, and it's there in $BOOST_ROOT. It only works  
on Unix-like systems, but it handles the simplest cases very well.

        - Doug