Re: [boost] Use of third-party libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] Use of third-party libraries
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-24 09:18:49

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:04 PM, pfultz2 <pfultz2_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Support for pkgconfig is nice to have but can be added later.
>> Actually, it'd be great if support for pkgconfig was included into
>> Boost.Build.
>
> That would be nice to have. A long while ago Roger Leigh worked on creating
> the
> pkgconfig files by using the autolink feature in boost. See here:
>
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1094

That ticket seems to be about adding .pc files for Boost libraries.
What I was thinking about is invoking pkg-config from Boost jamfiles
to discover compiler and linker options for third party libs.