Re: [boost] proposal - modularize Boost build system

Subject: Re: [boost] proposal - modularize Boost build system
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-19 18:38:04

paul wrote:
> > The first error here is
> >
> >     IMPORT error: rule "requires" unknown in module
> > "../../config/checks/config"
> >
> > because we don't have Boost.Config checked out as a sibling here.
>
> Instead of hard-coding paths to the build modules, it would be nice if it 
> searched for the modules instead, and then it could fallback on the 
> hardcoded paths when the search fails.
>
> Ideally, instead of inventing a search algorithm to find the modules, 
> pkgconfig could be used here. So when boost config is installed, the .pc 
> would add a variable that is the location of its bjam files for 
> consumption:
...

This won't work. The system Boost.Config installation on CentOS 7 is just 
the headers, as part of (yum) package boost. There are no bjam files 
anywhere to be found, no pkgconfig, no boost_config module.