Re: [jamboost] Re: Common Lib Subdir

From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-22 05:41:17

> After thinking about it a bit... doing it that way has more problems than
> the solution is worth. There are just too many things that can go wrong by
> taking that simple approach. And the more things can go wrong the more
> things we have to check for. Problems dealing with which files the user
> realy meant to install, wethere there are any left over files from other
> builds in the way, etc.
>
> So that leaves creating an options file to use when asked to install. And
I
> think there's a not too difficult way to do that -- cross-fingers ;-)
>
> Any other suggestions out there?

Yes, I've been playing with your new Jamfile quite a bit, I hope to have a
bunch of comments soon....

John.