Re: [boost] Boost.Build changes for 1.38

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Build changes for 1.38
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-02 09:26:08

on Sun Nov 02 2008, Vladimir Prus <vladimir-AT-codesourcery.com> wrote:

>> Yeah.  For a surprisingly large number of *nix users, if the
>> process doesn't look like ./configure && make && make install, they will
>> get upset.  
>
> I am not so sure

This is not just a theory; we have empirical evidence.

> -- it is my feeling that any process that, in default case,
> does not requires to manually specify anything, but just run 1, or 2, or 3
> commands, will be fine with most folks.
>
>> That's the reason the configure script was created.  Only a 
>> small subset of those users may try to set CXXFLAGS et. al, and even a
>> smaller subset needs to do cross-compilation, so I believe we're making
>> more people happy than angry.  I would be very, very cautious about
>> removing the configure script.
>
> In any case, we can retain the configure script, but make it wrapper over
> the above scheme, and also change the makefile to be exactly this:
>
>         all:
>                 bjam
>         install:
>                 bjam install

That's fine with me.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
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