Re: changing building directory for boost.jam v2

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-23 00:36:27

"al_odinaev" <al_odinaev_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use Boost.jam v2 for building company's software on
> different flavors of Unix. And I would like to say that boost.jam is
> very cool. I used standard jam for long time and I see tremendous
> improvements in Boost.jam which make life of ordinary engineer much
> easy. Unfortunately I need to support different structure for output
> files (.o,*.exe and etc). For example if I have file in your source
> tree like this:
> ./src/project1/a.cpp 
> I have to create ./build/src/project1/a.o. Roughly speaking ./build/
> directory is mirror of src directory. There are couple advantages of
> such approach:
> 1.You can delete build results with simple 'rm -f'
> 2.You keep your source tree clean from intermediate files.
>
> Is there any simple way to improve boost.jam v2 to implement this
> approach?

In BBv1 that's spelled ALL_LOCATE_TARGET, but I don't know if that's
been implemented in v2 yet.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com