Re: [boost] How to specify Boost headers location properly

Subject: Re: [boost] How to specify Boost headers location properly
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-10 17:17:19

Daniel James wrote:
> On 10 March 2010 22:01, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Ideally, each sandbox library would contain some logic to detect if project
>> named 'boost' exists, and if not so, to emit clear instructions what to
>> do. I can create a 'template' library in sandbox having such code, if
>> that helps.
> 
> If you could fix up the example I created, that would be great. It's at:
> 
> https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/example
> 
> I used João Abecasis' script to find boost, but you might be able to
> do something better?

The question is whether we should? Putting

        use-project /boost : some-path ;

in user-config.jam is one-time effort, and is probably more reliable than environment
variables anyway.

- Volodya