Re: [jamboost] BBv1 / BBv2 thoughts/questions/comments

From: Motonari Ito (motonari_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-20 14:29:43

Hi, 

Let me answer one of questions.

>1. Why was the single bin/ directory replaced with multiple bin/ 
>directories all over the hierarchy? With BBv1, it was very convenient to 
>rm -rf bin/ to get rid of everything, now one has to go through bunch of 
>subdirs to find all the bin/ dirs (and no, bjam --clean isn't a solution 
>- it still leaves stuff behind, especially when you'r working on the 
>build system, adding/removing targets etc).

You can use 'build-dir' in the top level Jamfile. For example, in your 
Jamroot,

project foo : requirements
# ...
: build-dir
bin
;

Then, all output files are located under [project-root]/bin.

Thanks.