[Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #2670: NetBSD pkgsrc support -- allow exclusion of all libraries from build process

Subject: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #2670: NetBSD pkgsrc support -- allow exclusion of all libraries from build process
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-22 04:30:31

#2670: NetBSD pkgsrc support -- allow exclusion of all libraries from build
process
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 Reporter:  brook               |       Owner:  grafik 
     Type:  Bugs                |      Status:  new    
Milestone:  Boost 1.38.0        |   Component:  bjam   
  Version:  Boost 1.37.0        |    Severity:  Problem
 Keywords:  bjam NetBSD pkgsrc  |  
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 This is a followup to a part of ticket #2540 (patch-ap) as requested.

 The purpose of this patch is to make it easy to not build any libraries
 during a bjam run.  This is required in order to support the pkgsrc
 packaging system.  That system has divided Boost into a series of
 different packages, each corresponding to different components, e.g.,
 headers, libraries other than python, python libraries, etc.  Several of
 these packages run bjam in the course of building themselves.  By default,
 bjam builds everything.  In the case of some of these (e.g., libs
 with/without python) there already exist bjam arguments to control the
 process appropriately.  However, if just the headers and no libraries are
 desired, there is no easy way to exclude all libraries from the build.
 The only apparent mechanism is to explicitly exclude each library
 individually, a process that is tedious and error prone given the changing
 library content.  The attached patch provides a way (i.e., via the bjam
 argument --without-*) to exclude all libraries.  The header only pkgsrc
 package (boost-headers) uses this to accomplish its task without needing
 to know an explicit list of libraries to exclude.

 There should be no impact of this on any current use of the --without-XXX
 bjam argument, because the use of '*' is not currently supported.

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2670>
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