Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake

Subject: Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake
From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-17 16:45:26

On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Steven Watanabe via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Boost.Build implementation:
> https://github.com/boostorg/units/blob/develop/test_headers/Jamfile.v2

We have the sources to bjam why can't we just turn this into a one-line rule?

For example, this says that test.cpp should compile:

    compile test.cpp

Can we just have

    compile-header test.hpp

And have bjam add the bits to define a main() and include test.hpp for us?