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

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-27 11:42:56

On Friday 27 January 2006 19:26, David Abrahams wrote:

> >>      prebuilt-lib a ;
> >>      header-only-lib b;
> >
> > I like this one. I'm not sure we need 'prebuilt-lib' as we current have a
> > way to express that, but 'header-only-lib' can be a more readable
> > alternative to 'alias'.
> >
> > Would you like to add this rule to builtin.jam?
>
> It always comes down to something like that, doesn't it?  ;-)

Yes ;-). But it's a simple rule that just calls "alias", so it should be be 
too much work.

> OK, I'll try to get to it.  Where should the docs 

In the "Builtin targets" section, where the syntax of "lib" is described, I 
believe.

> and tests be 
> changed?

You can copy tests/template.py to tests/header_only_lib.py and then add 
header_only_lib to the list in test_all.py

Thanks,
Volodya