Re: [Boost-build] Need help getting header only libraries to work.

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-20 17:47:42

Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Tuesday 17 January 2006 03:47, David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> > This is a recurring question, so I've added it to docs:
>> > http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/faq/header-only-libraries.htm
>> >l
>> >
>> > can you take a look and tell if what I wrote is clear enough or needs
>> > further clarification?
>>
>> Why don't we just implement my suggestion from
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.build/11166 so we can
>> stop clarifying this point?
>
> Currently
>
>     lib a ;
>
> is interpreted as searched library named "a", that is you'll get -liba in 
> command line on linux, and a.lib on Windows. So your proposal conflicts with 
> the current semantics (proposed by you, as well). Using presense or absense 
> of usage-requirements in "lib" to determine if that's header-only library or 
> not does not seem reliable to me.

Why not?  To me it seems reliable and only slightly obtuse.

Some other possibilities:

     lib a : : prebuilt ;
     lib a : : system ;
     lib a : : search ;       # I like this one
     lib b : : header-only ;  # And this one

     prebuilt-lib a ;
     header-only-lib b;

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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