Re: bcp namespace aliasing broken, impacts package providers, shared libraries unusable since 1.69

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-05-26 15:22:45

Andrey Semashev wrote:
> > 3a. Log doesn't work because it has jamfiles in libs/log/config, which 
> > is not copied (just `build` and `src` are.)
>
> Could you expand? I'm not sure I understand how an incomplete Boost.Log 
> directory tree comes to be.

That's just how `bcp` works as far as I can see. When you tell it to copy 
the library X and X depends on Log, it assumes that everything needed to 
build Log is contained in libs/log/build and libs/log/src, and only copies 
these two directories.