Re: [boost] [sandbox] SVN externals, and large subdirs.

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-25 13:22:10

Steven Watanabe wrote:
> AMDG
> 
> Jeff Garland <jeff <at> crystalclearsoftware.com> writes:
> 
>> This is a huge problem with the current sandbox organization.  After spending 
>> a couple hours the other day trying to get boost.build to work in the sandbox 
>> tree I gave up in frustration and had to copy sandbox directories into my 
>> boost tree to use bjam.  This is very annoying to say the least.
>>
>> Jeff
> 
> I made it work for Units by putting
> <include>$(BOOST_ROOT) <include>../../..
> in the test and example Jamfiles, and
> setting BOOST_ROOT appropriately in
> boost-build.jam and project-root.jam

Interesting...

Can you post your modified boost-build.jam and other files?  As I recall now 
the I couldn't get bjam to recognize it's home in the main boost tree even 
though I set up the build home and tried other ways as well.

> To build the documentation I had
> to make a few edits to Boost.Build.

Scary ;-)

Jeff