Re: [jamboost] Re: [v2] How to "use" boost?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-01 10:55:22

On Friday 01 April 2005 19:34, Peter Simons wrote:
> David Abrahams writes:
> > How do I do it? Shouldn't this be prominently displayed
> > early in the documentation?
>
> In my "local copy" of the boost libraries, I have this

> | libraries = [ glob libs/*/build/Jamfile.v2 ] ;
> | libraries = [ MATCH .*/libs/(.*)/build/.* : $(libraries) ] ;
> |
> | for local l in $(libraries)
> | {
> | use-project /boost/$(l) : libs/$(l)/build ;
> | }
>
> Once that file has been referenced, all boost libraries can
> be used as, say "/boost/thread//boost_thread".
>
> IMHO, it would be nice if the standard Boost distribution
> included something like that out-of-the-box.

In fact, the CVS version has something like the above!

- Volodya

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