Re: The new Boost 17.0.0

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-12-02 14:28:45

On 12/2/20 5:06 PM, Mike via Boost wrote:
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 02. Dezember 2020 um 11:18 Uhr
>> Von: "Andrey Semashev via Boost" <boost_at_[hidden]>
>>
>> On 12/2/20 12:43 AM, Antony Polukhin via Boost wrote:
>>>
>>> Would the bcp treat dependencies of include/boost/dll17 separately from
>>> include/boost/dll?
>>
>> AFAIR, bcp operates on file level, so yes, it should be able to select
>> individual headers used by some root source file, regardless of git
>> submodules.
> 
> I believe this is true for the header files, but how would bcp know
> which subset of source files to include?

bcp gives you the header files included into a source file, and nothing 
more. It also has the caveat that it doesn't preprocess files, so it may 
miss includes that are obscured by macros. It does not give you the 
source files for separately compiled libraries, which may be required to 
implement components declared in those headers.