Re: [boost] [review][beast] Review of Beast starts today : July 1 - July 10

Subject: Re: [boost] [review][beast] Review of Beast starts today : July 1 - July 10
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-05 16:59:38

Vinnie Falco wrote:
> Yes that was my thinking as well when I set it up. However, Peter's 
> suggestion to add:
>
>     project boost/libs
>       : requirements <implicit-dependency>/boost//headers
>
> Seems to work. Or rather, it didn't break anything. So the problem you 
> allude to might be easily fixed by just having a better "best practices" 
> document.

The proper way to handle this would probably be to move everything you have 
in Jamroot to a Jamfile, and have a blank Jamroot. This way, when the 
library is put under $(BOOST_ROOT)/libs, one just needs to delete the empty 
Jamroot for it to pick up the Boost Jamroot.