Re: [boost] CMake Announcement from Boost Steering Committee

Subject: Re: [boost] CMake Announcement from Boost Steering Committee
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-27 21:16:13

AMDG

On 07/27/2017 09:28 AM, Gary Furnish via Boost wrote:
> .
> Sure.  See the discussions where if you aren't doing things the
> boost-build way and are instead a config-per-directory way your
> basically considered a second class citizen in spite of that being the
> way the rest of the oss world works.  The fact that it is still
> non-obvious how to do this without touching anything besides a build
> directory is awful.  This should be somewhere in big bold letters.
>

$ b2 --help
...
  --build-dir=DIR    Build in this location instead of building within
                     the distribution tree. Recommended!

This option is also documented here:
http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started/windows.html#invoke-b2

and here:
http://www.boost.org/build/doc/html/bbv2/overview/invocation.html#bbv2.overview.invocation.options

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe