[Boost-build] HowTo best include selected Boost lib source in my tarball?

From: Matt England (mengland_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-07 00:57:37

I manage a project (that's soon to go open source) that depends on Boost 
libs (the specific ones listed at the end of this email).

I want to include Boost source for these libs in my project's source 
tarball (much the same way Subversion does for apr, apr-util, and neon; I'm 
sure other projects do similar things) and then include the 
Boost-lib-building in the build-from-source procedure for my project's 
software, all by just using GNU-make 3.80 or above.

Is this feasible?  If so, can I do it without having to include *the 
entire* source-code set (with it's enormouse number of files) or being 
forced to use bjam?

Here's the Boost libs we currently use (but we may use more someday):

thread
date_time
filesystem
program_options
regex
thread

-Matt