Re: [jamboost] How to install only subset of header files?

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-22 06:05:57

At 02:10 2005-05-20, marcel_loose wrote:
>Hi,
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>I recently posted this question in the boost.user group, but got no
>replies. Hence, I'll try it in this group, hopefully with better luck.
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>Is it possible to only install a subset of all boost *header files*?
>More specifically, only the header files that are needed when
>installing one or more libraries.
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>For example, suppose I only want to use Boost Smart Pointers and
>Boost.Threads. I would like Bjam to *only* install the header files
>that are needed for those two libraries, not *all* Boost header
>files.

I'm confused. If you're developing and using boost (any of it), why would 
you want only _some_ of it availalbe. Refactoring while coding certainly 
occurs and discovering that the portion of boost you _now_ need isn't 
available seems to me to be quite a showstoppper. Certainly more of a 
problem that simply having one shared copy of all the headers which takes 
only 20MB on my latest checkout and install (about 4 hours ago)

> I know that you can and should use the bjam option --with-
><library>, but, AFAIK, this only works for the library files, not for
>the header files. Any help would be appreciated.
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>Kind regards,
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>Marcel Loose.
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