Re: [boost] [Git] Documentation for Git and Modular Boost conversion

Subject: Re: [boost] [Git] Documentation for Git and Modular Boost conversion
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-07 15:42:58

On 12/7/2012 11:44 AM, Oliver Kowalke wrote:
> 2012/12/7 Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
> 
>> We are starting to pull together documentation for the Git and Modular
>> Boost conversion.
>>
>> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/WikiStart#GitandModularBoost
>>
>> Comments and corrections welcome!
>>
>> I'm particularly interested in unanswered questions you have after
>> reading these initial docs.
> 
> I tried to compile/execute some unit-tests. Unfortunately some files seam
> to be missing (bootstrap.jam):
> 
> Unable to load Boost.Build: could not find build system.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> /boost/boost-build.jam attempted to load the build system by invoking
> 
>    'boost-build tools/build/v2 ;'
> 
> but we were unable to find "bootstrap.jam" in the specified directory
> or in BOOST_BUILD_PATH (searching /boost/tools/build/v2,
> /usr/share/boost-build).
> 
> I did:
> - git clone https://github.com/boost-lib/boost.git
> - cd boost/libs
> - git clone https://github.com/boost-lib/core.git
> - cd core/test
> - b2
> 
> Do I have to clone an additional submodule (which is not mentioned in the
> docu)?

Beman's docs appear to lack instructions for how to clone the
super-project and initialize the sub-modules. That would be a nice
addition. I don't know the steps and can't find them ATM, but I know
it's documented *somewhere*. Beman?

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Eric Niebler
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