Re: [boost] Interface for configuring third-party dependencies

Subject: Re: [boost] Interface for configuring third-party dependencies
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-07 13:02:36

Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> Boosters,
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> Does anybody have comments on this?
> 
> How would per-project dependency configuration work?
> If I want to configure zlib to be something when compiling one
> project, and something else when compiling another project with
> boost.build. I wouldn't want to modify user-config.jam in my HOME
> directory.

You would put project-config.jam in the root of your project. For
extra convenience, you can even create project-config.jam.in with
some sensible defaults, put it in version control, and then ask
all developers to create project-config.jam based on the .in 
version.

- Volodya