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

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-07 03:03:26

On Friday 07 April 2006 10:58, Matt England wrote:
> At 4/7/2006 01:35 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> >For building, you'll either have to use bjam or roll your own solution for
> >building Boost (not recommended).
>
> Is bjam build v1 and "something else" is build v2?  Which one should I use?

V2.

> I'm going to attempt to build bjam from scratch every time if I can (and/or
> ship a bjam executable for all platforms with my source).  How feasible is
> this approach?  Does it typically build in less then 2 minutes...or how
> long does it take?  (I'm looking for a basic time estimate.)

bjam typically builds in a minute or so.

> (It sure would be nice if Boost simply built from gnu-make 3.80 or above
> like much of the rest of the world does now.  Can I read a faq somewhere
> bout why it doesn't?)

Last time I checked, the rest of the world was using some graphical IDE on 
Windows, and had no idea about make or gnu whatsoever.

For more detailed rationale, see:

   http://boost.org/tools/build/v1/build_system.htm#requirements

- Volodya

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Vladimir Prus
http://vladimir_prus.blogspot.com
Boost.Build V2: http://boost.org/boost-build2