Needs help for my build system

From: TEMPLIE Cédric (cedric.templie_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-13 08:09:06

Hi,

I do not understand all the boost build system.
I have a kind of structure like that (This is a global view, a developer 
may have only the Project2 and Build view):

+--- project-root.jam
+--- JamFile
+--- Project1/ #Nothing to compile in this project, only copy files to
Build dir
|
+--- JamFile
+--- lib/ (contains libraries)
+--- include/ (contains headers)
+--- Project2/
|
+--- JamFile
+--- sources/ (contains sources)

+--- ProjectX/
|
+--- JamFile
+--- sources/ (contains sources)

+--- Build/
|
+--- include/ (contains header files)
+--- lib/ (contains libraries)
+--- bin/ (contains dll and exe)

All of my build results should go to the appropriate directory of the 
build directory.

I need to define some variables (BIN_ROOT, INCLUDE_ROOT, LIB_ROOT), 
where have I to put these variable definition (in project-root.jam, or 
JamFile of the root) ?

Each project look in Build/include for headers, Build/lib for libraries 
and in Build/bin for dlls.

Project2 needs Project1 to compile.
What I want is, when I build Project2, it builds Project1 (Building 
Project1 is copying files and libs in the Build dir) then Project2 can 
be built.
If Project2 build succeed, I copy headers in the Build/Include directory.

Moreover, if the developer who want to build Project2 does not have the 
Project1 directory, there is a mistake. So I want to specify that 
Project1 is /Project1 when the directory is here, and is only the 
library in Build/lib when the Project1 directory is undefined on the 
developer computer.

I really don't from where started my work...
Any help will be appreciate.
Thanks in advance.

TEMPLIE Cédric