Re: [Boost-build] [Boost][Build][v2] Adding command line options

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-07 16:28:31

K. Noel Belcourt wrote:
> Is there some documentation on how to modify Boost build to add new  
> command line options? 

Not that I know of.

> I'd like to know where and how to add options  
> when using bjam v2 head.  I want to make these command line arguments  
> available to the project Jamfiles and would prefer command line  
> arguments to requiring users to set environment variables.  Something  
> like
> 
> bjam --v2 --builddir=/my/derived/files --materialdir=/my/material/ 
> library
> 
> I've looked at what's done in the Boost distribution but from what I  
> can tell, it seems to require modifications to the Jambase, which I'd  
> rather avoid if possible.  Any ideas?

No need to change Jambase... There's a global var "ARGV" which holds all 
the arguments. Take a look at how the Boost Jamfile.v2 
<http://boost.cvs.sourceforge.net/boost/boost/Jamfile.v2?revision=1.38&view=markup#l_175> 
handles all the options it uses.

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