Re: [boost] Boost Modularization: did we get it right?

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost Modularization: did we get it right?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-09 11:11:55

AMDG

On 05/09/2012 06:31 AM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 03:17 PM, Oliver Kowalke wrote:
>>
>>>>> I'm annoyed that I get some additonal burden to re-write this stuff
>>>>> for
>>>>> the new build env again because the old one will not work with the
>>>>> modularized boost.
>>>>
>>>> Once you have run the script, the usual Boost.Build system will work
>>> just
>>>> fine.
>>>
>>> And I've just done that and it did work and the test did pass.
>>> Windows 7 with VC++ 10.0.
>>>
>>
>> And why not provide a wrapper that let the other developers use the
>> old build env with modularized boost?
> 
> Boost.Build *is* "the old build env".
> 
> I've suggested to the people in charge of modularization to integrate
> the script within Boost.Build itself, so that this step is done
> automatically.
> 

It's a little bit tricky to make
this work.  If we hard link or
copy each header, then Boost.Build
can handle it trivially, but Jam's
#include scanner currently has no
way to search sym-linked directories
that are created as part of the build.
Actually, we could do a recursive
glob of the target directory and
make the all the headers in the
directory outputs of the sym-link
action.  Then it should just work.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe