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

From: Matt England (mengland_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-07 10:35:21

At 4/7/2006 02:03 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > Is bjam build v1 and "something else" is build v2?  Which one should I use?
>
>V2.

Ok.  How does:

http://boost.org/boost-build2/

Differ from:

http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started.html#step2

...if at all?  ie, how does V1 differ from V2...and is the "standard" stuff 
V1 or V2?  Is bjam exclusively V2, or are we talking about a new rev of 
bjam...or something else?

I'm a bit confused.

>bjam typically builds in a minute or so.

Excellent.

At 4/7/2006 04:31 AM, John Maddock wrote:
>>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?
>
>That's exectly what the bcp tool is for: 
>http://www.boost.org/tools/bcp/bcp.html

Yes, Volodya mentioned this earlier.  Thanks all for the feedback.  Looks 
like quite a handy tool.

>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.

I stand corrected; yes, that's a much bigger world.  (I was thinking only 
of open-source, cross-platform projects; my apologies for being so 
myopic)  I should know better; I myself am working with the gnu-make and 
mingw-users communities to get gnu-make ported properly to mingw/msys.

If I tried to target all the Windows IDEs, then I'd probably build a bjam, 
too (if I were managing the project)....or try and use CMake and/or 
bakefile.  Alas, these are recent gizmos, and bjam was probably needed 
earlier...and Boost has full control of it, which is presumably (by me) 
good for the Boost project.

>For more detailed rationale, see:
>
>    http://boost.org/tools/build/v1/build_system.htm#requirements

Thanks for the reference,
-Matt