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

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-05-26 16:03:04

On 5/26/19 6:22 PM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> 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.

Can it be modified to copy the whole directory structure?

I could move libs/log/config into libs/log/build, but I'd prefer to be 
able to rely on all directory structure being intact.