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

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-27 11:44:16

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

> >> Some other possibilities:
> >>
> >>      lib a : : prebuilt ;
> >>      lib a : : system ;
> >>      lib a : : search ;       # I like this one
> >>      lib b : : header-only ;  # And this one
> >
> > This overloads the third argument of "lib" -- elsewhere, it means
> > requiements.
>
> Yes, why couldn't that be a requirement, i.e. a property of the
> target?

Forgot to answer this one. It's probably possible, but still a bit of a 
stretch. If "prebuilt" a value of some implicit feature? Or not, we're 
changing the syntax rules for the sake of one use-case.

- Volodya