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From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-01 10:51:27


On Thursday 31 March 2005 21:01, David Abrahams wrote:
> It contains:
>
> project boost
>
> : requirements <include>$(BOOST_ROOT)
>
> # disable auto-linking for all targets here,
> # primarily because it caused troubles with V2
> <define>BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1
> # Used to encode variant in target name. See the
> # 'tag' rule below.
> <tag>@$(__name__).tag
>
> : usage-requirements <include>$(BOOST_ROOT)
> : build-dir bin.v2
>
> ;
>
>
> why are we using BOOST_ROOT here? Shouldn't that be just:
>
> project boost
>
> : requirements <include>.

It should. Maybe this was written before "." in <include> was correctly
handled ;-)

Feel free to fix.

- Volodya

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